Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve of a score...
...Munich of 400 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. If a thief so much as touches one. an alarm will go off. London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery are considering placing their pictures in a new kind of mat-a thin layer of foam rubber sandwiched between two foil sheets that are wired to the wall. It will do a thief no good to cut the wires, for the alarm will go off anyway. Price...
Wayward Jets. The West was ready with its own countermeasures. The U.S. Air Force supplied navigational gadgets to help foil the jammers, and airline pilots were going through courses last week to learn their use; already the equipment was being installed by Pan Am on the DC-6Bs it employs on the Berlin run. Plans were being discussed to slap restrictions on planes of Communist airlines on Western routes if trouble comes. And there was another way to combat obstruction of the airlanes: armed fighter escorts to fly alongside the commercial aircraft, ready to defend them with gunfire if necessary...
Basking beside the Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary...
...clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...