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...Certain of these efforts deserve comment: (1) Miss Hayworth can wear more clothes and still look under than any female this side of a Restoration book jacket. (2) She can get off a wall and into a man's arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood who can boast of two relatives who are accomplished on the Spanish guitar, (These gentlemen are on display in the "Loves of Carmen...
...sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
...opened an exhibition on "The Netherlands Woman, 1898-1948." She looked almost girlish in a tiny white Dutch cap, a green print dress and sandals. Her unpainted nails nervously fingered the notes from which she read her speech: "In the past 50 years woman has finally had courage to descend from her pedestal and to go to work herself in those spheres for which she had formerly been deemed too delicate . . . She had not considered that her so-called most appropriate work-the task of being a mother and raising a family-was exactly the task . . . that demands the most...
Decompression at such altitudes is in itself not fatal (monkeys have withstood it at 75,000 feet), provided the victim is returned almost immediately to a lower altitude. But humans black out in about 15 seconds, too little time for a pilot to descend to a tolerable altitude...
...from the U.S. Air Force's Berlin airlift. Carefully watching the calibrations which told him the plane's altitude, speed and distance, the G.I. at Search Scope called over his microphone to the pilot: "Calling Easy Charlie three nine ... You will descend 500 feet a minute ... Fly two five seven degrees...