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...earth. One of them fuels itself from the other and departs, replenished, for the moon. In mode No. 3, LOR (Lunar Orbit Rendezvous), a single rocket will proceed to the moon and park its manned upper stage in a lunar orbit. Then a small manned landing craft will descend to the lunar surface, stay there for a short while, and climb up again for orbital rendezvous before returning to earth...
Though the villa also has an excellent view of the 13th century cathedral campanile and the town piazza, Jackie will have to drive about 20 minutes to get to its beach house, or else gingerly descend 282 steps carved into the steep rock. Aside from swimming from the rocks (there is no beach), she will certainly have a chance to water...
...Wren a century and a half later. Wren remodeled it for his royal masters, William and Mary. But Wolsey's apartments are still there, and it is said that sometimes at night His Eminence can be heard opening and shutting doors. This summer the thousands of tourists who descend upon Hampton Court can get something of the flavor of Wolsey's and Henry VIII's day, as the result of an elaborate restoration job performed by the Ministry of Works. But the restoration has also given the art world an extra dividend: in restoring the 16th century...
Society (bad) is encroaching on these two fancy-free individuals. A pair of social workers descend to determine whether Murray is a suitable father-figure. One (male) leaves indignantly to file a negative report. The other (the other) stays the night to help stabilize the home, and, like Wendy, to provide these little boys with a mother and like that...
...denounces them vehemently; he carries a prayer book in one hand and pinches pretty bottoms with the other. In a soaring flight of pathetic phallacy, he begs Ekberg to come down off that sign and stop damaging the public morals. "All right," says Ekberg. All ten fathoms of her descend from the sign. She plucks up the dirty-minded fellow, removes his trousers, and clutches him to her mammoth mammaries...