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...interested in a celestial view of Moscow as it is in a thick, radioactive mantle 600 miles overhead, which overwhelmed the sensory devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic...
...corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip the girl, because the embassy is "Cambodia in London." Ambassador Sary got off a protest to the British Foreign Office, objecting to Iv Eng Seng's complaints. Iv Eng Seng applied to Home Minister Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, asking for asylum...
...Neither law nor custom bars flying 48-star flags or even 13-star flags. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson gave the U.S. Navy responsibility for planning changes in flag design. President Eisenhower will probably follow Wilson's executive order, hand the problem to the Navy, which in turn may appoint a design commission...
Orsini's bombs were custom made for him by a respectable British firm, paid for by a sympathetic British crackpot. By the beginning of 1858, Orsini and three Italian fellow conspirators had arrived in Paris with their cargo of "what looked like a clutch of monstrous birds' eggs, spiny and fantastic." On the appointed night Orsini and his friends joined the crowd in the Rue Lepelletier, down which Louis Napoleon and Empress Eugénie were about to drive to the opera...
...Japanese custom got a new-and somewhat surprising-raking-over in Tokyo last week. On display at the Shirokiya Department Store went more than 70 foreign-made products alongside Japanese copies so cleverly done that only an expert could tell which twin had the patent right. The purpose: a campaign by the Japanese government to shame businessmen out of pirating foreign designs. Said the Ministry of International Trade: "This exhibit is an appeal to the Japanese people's conscience...