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...Irish. The hair is the color of a slightly soiled orangutan, and over the large smile arches an orange mustache such as a man might hang his hat on. The hat, set over at a country angle, is Tyrolean and supports a bright little brush that stands eternally erect. The jacket is tweed and reeks of Irish fog and Irish twist and good green Irish whisky...
...what is believed to be the biggest industrial deal yet between Communists and capitalists, a British consortium last week signed a contract to erect an $84 million polyester-fiber plant in Siberia...
Lonely Are the Brave. To the 6,624 athletes who will soon swoop into Tokyo, the city has indeed offered its all. Fully $65 million has been spent to renovate and erect sports facilities, as well as an Olympic Village replete with trees and ornamental shrubs. In the Olympic Cafeteria, 150 separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged...
...thrust. The engines' turbine blades are air-cooled to keep them from melting, and the afterburners, which are used continuously at high speed, run white-hot. The two boxlike air intakes, each one feeding three engines, are 80 ft. long and high enough for a man to walk erect in their gaping maws. They are rigged with movable walls, ports and bypass doors to keep the entering air at the right pressure and temperature. The engines are grouped close to the centerline of the plane so that if one of them fails, the loss of thrust will not cause...
West German police have been known to halt a car and order the driver to take aboard a wholesome-looking stoppeur. Neatness counts, since it denotes respectability; so does a pair of knobby knees (male), because Germans like outdoorsiness. The thumb is a U.S. import; native custom dictates an erect forearm and a vigorous loose-wristed wag of the hand. One student last summer became king of the Autobahnen by carrying a sign that said: I KNOW A THOUSAND JOKES...