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...though members of an order that is organized like an army, wore plain black cassocks without sign of rank. The austere tradition recalls St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), who when he first took up a life of poverty insisted on wearing a woolen tunic, which earned him and his earliest followers in Spain the jeering nickname ensayalados, the men in wool...
...Medaris. boss of the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal; Major General Bernard A. Schriever, boss of the Air Force's ballistics-missile program; and Wilson's special assistant for guided missiles, William M. Holaday, onetime Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc. research director. Wedding date: "Earliest practicable," probably October...
Though Mao Tse-tung labors to establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...evening papers, only four put the Nixon story on page one at the earliest opportunity; four buried it inside the paper; and six did not run it the first day at all. But as soon as the Stevenson fund story broke, all the evening papers played it on the first page. Of the 18 morning papers, only eight front-paged the story in the next edition; seven ran it inside; and three omitted it completely...
...earliest airplane designers knew that air turbulence was their enemy, tried to build wings that would slip through the air as smoothly as fish drift through water. They always failed. As the air flowed over the wing, it broke into curling eddies that dragged at the plane and drank up the engine's power. In theory, the scientists knew that this "burble" effect could be prevented by sucking into the wing a thin layer of air, and with it the incipient eddies. The remaining air would glide past the whole wing in smooth "laminar flow" (see diagram...