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...controlling guided missiles. If a missile depends on microwaves for guidance, it loses touch with its control station as soon as it passes out of "sight" beyond the curve of the earth. It is possible that the new system can keep the missile firmly on a microwave leash over a far greater distance than the line-of-sight method permitted...
...pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, had been quietly doing his duties as air attache in Brussels, refusing social engagements in favor of racing horses as a gentleman jockey, and scrupulously denying himself to newsmen. But now, with the air of a man suddenly released from an invisible leash, Airman Townsend began giving interviews, dropping pointed hints and adopting the manner of a man who could say much more if his lips were not sealed. "The word cannot come from me. You will appreciate it must come from other people," he told one newsman. To another he said...
Almost every morning, a slim figure in a polo coat, leading a small black poodle on a leash, emerges from one of Manhattan's cliff houses on East 66th Street. The doorman gives her a cheery "Good Morning, Miss Kelly." But outside, no head turns. For in her low-heeled shoes and horn-rimmed spectacles, Actress Grace Kelly is all but indistinguishable from any other well-scrubbed young woman of the station-wagon set, armored in good manners, a cool expression, and the secure knowledge that whatever happens, Daddy...
...Gardner inherited millions of dollars from her father (a Manhattan importer) and millions more from her husband, John Lowell Gardner, who was a pillar of Boston society. She enjoyed the money. Young "Mrs. Jack" buffaloed Boston by such antics as strolling down Tremont Street with a lion on a leash, and high balling to a North Shore party at the throttle of a chartered locomotive. Once, when asked to contribute to "The Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary," she remarked that she was not aware of a charitable eye or ear in Boston. Henry Adams described the effect of a chat...
...draw out Leviathan with a fish hook? Can you put a rope in its nose or Plerce his Jaw with a hook? Will he play with you as a bird? Or will you put him on leash for your maidens...