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...suburbs had a cause. And what a cause. The daily ladies doubles was now field for liberation, the weekend tennis its proving ground. And the talk over tea after tennis was noisy with sexual banter, and later, the cocktail chatter grew hotter as the sexual sparring got heavier. The housewife was to be vindicated, her woman's honor restored: Margaret had put meaning into tennis...
...staying power but his amazing consistency, which has won the Atlanta Braves outfielder 14 major-league records. Even so, it is his relentless pursuit of the record that has made him at age 39 the single most conspicuous figure in American sports. Last week, 20 seasons older, 30 Ibs. heavier and 2,953 games more experienced than when he hit home run No. 1, Hammerin' Hank drove No. 710 over the left-centerfield wall at Atlanta Stadium. Going into the weekend, with 13 games remaining on the schedule, he was within suspenseful reach of what is being billed...
...become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches to accommodate heavier aircraft now on the drawing boards−and possibly even rocket-powered airliners of the future...
...weekend's accumulation of mail early last Monday morning when she came across a manila envelope addressed to a former military attache. The letter bore a United Kingdom postmark, indicating that it had been sent through the British army postal service. Other than that the letter was slightly heavier and thicker than most letters, she noticed nothing unusual about it. When Mrs. Murray opened the envelope, a spring-loaded bomb blew off her left hand, sprayed pellets into her face and arms, and blasted out two windows from the chancery's sixth floor office...
Choisy-le-Roi takes in up to 2,450 gallons of raw Seine water per second and puts it through a series of preliminary steps not unlike those in any U.S. water plant. First comes a "scrubbing" with ferric chloride and other chemicals; then the heavier particles of dirt are allowed to settle to the bottom of tanks while the lighter ones are removed by filtering. Elsewhere in the plant, in twelve huge stainless-steel containers, ozone is produced by bombarding dried, refrigerated and pressurized air with up-to-20,000-volt bolts of electricity...