Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera's improbable libretto has to do with the efforts of the heroine, Amelia Egmont, to kill the Duke of Alba, 16th century Spanish governor of the conquered Low Countries. She succeeds only in killing her lover Marcello, who turns out to be Alba's long-lost son. In a preposterous ending, the duke leaves Marcello's body lying on the dock and sails for home to a cheerful mariners' chorus...
...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
Since even big Hovercraft will rise only a few feet above the water, they are bound to have trouble with waves. But the designers are not much worried. Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be designed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel...
...uses of aluminum will bring record production and sales this year, it is unlikely that earnings will follow-even though the stocks of aluminum companies have hopefully risen to the year's high. Producers say that the price of aluminum at 24.7?a Ib. is too low. Although a price rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe...
Enter Brett Ashley. Chances are that Harold Loeb would never have been a character in a Hemingway novel if Duff Twitchell had not riveted his eye in the mirror of the Select Cafe in Paris and said, in her low, exciting voice, "It is the only miracle"-meaning love. Duff took love and drink in immoderation. Depending on the flow of checks from England, she and her upper-Bohemian lover, Pat Swazey, lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway...