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...Swooping Gondola. Last week the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. unveiled a monstrous apparatus for studying the effect of G-forces on fragile human flesh. In a trim, museumlike building, a soft, cantilever arm whirls in a horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola" where the helpless "airman" sits. The gondola can be tilted at any angle, directing the G-force in any direction through the passenger's body. Driven by a 4,000-h.p. motor, the arm can generate 15 Gs (much more than a man can stand) in less than...
...carpenter made a blue cross to put on his grave when he died. Pancho Villa himself told the painter that the lettering on the cross should read, "Lieut. Colonel Pedro Gomez." Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters. One of them accidentally touched off a fuse and the car blew up. The only survivor: Gomez...
...imports spread out over an entire floor of its New York store. More than 25,000 people crowded into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church, and a donkey cart (lent by General George C. Marshall, who got it as a present from grateful Sicilians), adorned with paintings of Truman and Marshall...
...basic idea seems to be that it doesn't matter what the boys do to Strauss so long as they keep it lively. The rotating stage is decked out with a gay jumble of pagodas and minarets, Arab palaces and Venetian gondola landings. Costumes flash across the stage with colorful irrelevance: sultans look like Dalai Lamas, girls in Balkan skirts wiggle through Egyptian belly dances, men gotten up as Chinese coolies chant Viennese versions of Moslem music...
...ball games. He was tutored at home. In 1925, after his father had died, leaving him a small legacy, he headed for Paris, to drift casually through its salons and cafes. In 1940 he moved to Venice, where he became a familiar sight, plying the canals in his huge gondola, a parrot perched on his shoulder, the words "fleur de misere" (flower of misery) printed in red across the chest of his heavy navy-blue sweater. At his daily teas, intellectuals and artists hobnobbed with petty thieves and guttersnipes, whom he had met during his bohemian wanderings...