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...room, John Kennedy's smile seemed wan. Like any President, Kennedy is sensitive to kidding, and at their annual Gridiron Club dinner, Washington newsmen ribbed him, his policies and his family mercilessly. But when the President arose for his own five-minute speech, he showed that he could dish it out as well as take...
...singles, while handing out almost as many new ones. There are four fewer restaurants in the top rank than in 1939, while * and ** restaurants have declined by 262. Explains Editor Pauchet: "Now everybody's in a hurry and the chef no longer has time to simmer a special dish...
...course, Japanese cuisine is generally ranked among the world's best. Sukiyaki, though, is not properly a typical Japanese dish; for one thing it was unknown in Japan until about sixty years ago. Also, one meal of sukiyaki contains more meat than the average Japanese eats in a year. Yet this delicious combination of sliced beef and vegetables is immensely popular in Japan today and is unquestionably the most famous Japanese food. The Rashomon serves it as it is served in Japan: a large platter of attractively arranged slices of raw beef and various vegetables is brought to the table...
...Ranger III started a complicated series of maneuvers. Its little gas jets turned it to a new attitude. Then its large midcourse rocket motor burned hydrazine for a specified number of seconds. After the motor shut off, Ranger III locked itself to the sun again and turned its dish antenna toward the earth. Finally it reported, detail by detail, that it had obeyed its orders. But the last-minute midcourse correction was too small. Because of its errant launch, Ranger III still could not score a bull...
...swung away; the camera was turned on and given 30 minutes to warm up. At another memorized command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth; the pictures that it sent to earth were an almost meaningless blur, no use at all to the stay-at-home scientists...