Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madrid is an accurate index to the expansive mood of Spain's rich & mighty who follow the traditional social season-Seville in April, Madrid in May and June, San Sebastian in July and August (then back to the Madrid black market for the drab winter months). Now they jam the Palace and Chicote bars, their ranks reinforced by distinguished foreign refugees such as the Petacci family of Mussolini's late mistress, Clara...
...Guide Problem. Simplest missiles are not guided at all; they are "preset" on a calculated course toward the target, as the V-weapons were. "Command" missiles follow orders (radio signals) from the ground, a ship, or a piloted aircraft. "Along-the-way" missiles carry equipment which detects deviations from an established course through space. "Homing" missiles are attracted, like moths to a street light, by the target itself. If the target gives off sound waves, light, heat, or electrical influences, the missile picks up the trail and follows it to the kill...
...this pattern of success, President "Pop" Shapiro had a seven-word formula neatly printed on a small sign on his oak-stained desk: "Fools invent fashions-wise men follow them...
...into New York harbor last week with her holds filled with 2,500,000 fifths of Scotch whiskey. It was the largest single shipment in seven years. Britain is planning to increase her Scotch production and exports to boost her dollar balances, and many other such shipments will soon follow. But this prospect brought no cheers from liquor retailers, many of whom are caught with supplies of high-priced Scotch in their cellars...
...agrees with them in principle. "We can only be grateful if America is prepared in any way to make it easier for us to defend our security. But no one has tried harder than the Government to reduce our dependence. . . . The idea that we are somehow bound politically to follow American policy is . . . false...