Word: iii
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...belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough, determined Lefèvre entered Parliament at 32 as a fervent royalist. When his party's old guard acquiesced to the Socialists' demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead, he built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened discipline and led his party in onslaught after onslaught against the Socialists. Those...
They Talk Good. The Trifan kids are different from other kids "who don", like Shakespeare," as Marioara put it one afternoon last week. She had just been reciting Richard III from memory but Henry IV's Falstaff is her favorite character because "he's an exaggerator." Her little brother Richard idly remarked that the sun shining on the roof generated the same heat as 140 tons of soft coal. "Bi tuminous or lignite?" countered Brother David. Richard changed the subject to an 1865 coin that his mother owns. When Daniel recalled 1865 as the year of Jean Sibelius...
...Richard F. Post, of the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, reported that a "magnetic mirror" machine, playfully called Toy Top III, may soon make possible a controlled (nonexplosive) thermonuclear reaction. In the past, plasma formed by magnetic squeezing and heating of heavy hydrogen was too unstable to reach and maintain the high temperature necessary for a thermonuclear reaction. By using only two of Toy Top's three stages, said Post, plasma was confined in a "magnetic bottle" for one-thousandth of a second at a temperature of 40 million degrees centigrade. Post hopes that by using...
...late Bible ... was sent to me sure: which bred in me a sad- that will grieve me while I it is so III done. Tell His that I would rather be rent ces with wild horses, than any translation by my consent be urged upon poor churches. e new edition crosseth me. it to be burnt...
Divorced. Sheppard King III, 35, the Texas playboy who turned Moslem to marry his second wife, an Egyptian belly dancer; by Third Wife Mona Johnson King, 38, a former U.S. Government typist; after five years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...