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When chemists dream their fanciest dreams, they imagine powering a rocket with liquid hydrogen and liquid ozone (03). This pair is tops for energy. Its reaction has a specific impulse of 373. The specific impulse of the traditional kerosene-oxygen combination is only...
...Howard Johnson's restaurant chain doubled the number of high chairs and junior chairs as whole families bore down in record numbers to comb the menus-and take advantage of the rest rooms. The fanciest Miami Beach hotels waited hand and foot-and charged an arm and a leg-on folks from What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water...
Picked for Patsies. This week they are right in the middle of one of the fanciest midseason free-for-alls that the National League has ever known. The first division really consists of six teams, and there is not a soft touch even in the last two clubs (Chicago's Cubs, Pittsburgh's Pirates). The aging Dodgers may not be the world-beaters of other summers, but they are hanging on while some of their best players nurse assorted aches and pains on the sidelines. The St. Louis Cardinals have come upon a pair of pitching brothers named...
...near approach of Mars last summer was a sad disappointment to astronomers. A dust storm that veiled the planet's disk foiled the fanciest apparatus. But last week's meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific at Flagstaff, Ariz, heard a few bits of Martian news that had shown through the dust curtain...
Whether in conscious or unconscious irony, Makarios had chosen to put up at Athens' fanciest hotel, now because of anti-British sentiment officially called the "Petit Palais," but still known to all Athenians by its original name-"Grande Bretagne." By the time he got there, some 50,000 people had packed themselves into the square before the hotel. Speaking to the crowd from the hotel balcony, Makarios promptly made it clear that his months of exile in the Seychelles Islands had made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less...