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Pensive Thought. Another melancholy man turned up last year as a possible suitor: the hawk-nosed, greying Shah of Iran, 39, able and conscientious, divorced from his Queen Soraya and badly needing a son for his heirless kingdom. Attracted by published pictures of Princess Ella, he went to Geneva ostensibly for dental care, was a dinner guest at the sprawling Merlinge villa where Ella lives with ex-Queen Marie José. After the Shah departed, the Italian press clamored so loudly that lovely Ella again visited her native land. At a press conference, after some pensive thought, she told reporters...
...come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke's Chester), Marshal Dooley watches hawk-eyed over the welfare of the town's citizens, taking special pains that drunks who wander out of the saloons are courteously guided right back inside...
then, screeching like a hawk, strove...
...born 80 years ago, the transcontinental railroad, only nine years old, was a new thing. Electric power did not become publicly available until he was a year old. He was 17 before Marconi sent his first wireless signals, and he was 25 when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk...
...conversion. Always British-oriented, it is now turning toward the U.S. for a new array of weapons. To start, Canada will buy the U.S. Lacrosse, a highly mobile artillery rocket with pinpoint accuracy, send the first units to Canadian NATO forces in Germany. The army also likes the U.S. Hawk ground-to-air missile for defense against low-flying planes, wants other U.S. missiles for antitank weapons. Eventually, Canada hopes to get nuclear warheads, both for the Lacrosse missile and for the Bomarc interceptor recently adopted by the R.C.A.F...