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...fine afternoon a huge Atlas rocket took off from Cape Canaveral carrying an Agena B as its second stage. On the nose of the Agena perched Ranger III, a 727-lb., $7,000,000 marvel of precision and ingenuity that U.S. spacemen hoped last week would send back closeup TV pictures of the moon, and land a small, tough seismograph on the lunar surface...
...persistent man who precipitated the Senate investigation of military "muzzling" is South Carolina's J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate's deepest-dyed conservatives and most colorful characters. Even his colleagues from below the Mason-Dixon Line marvel at Thurmond's passionate devotion to the Southern way of life. "Listen at ole Strom out there," said one Southern Senator while Thurmond was in the midst of a stem-winding segregationist speech a few years ago. "He really believes all that stuff...
...paragraph as composed by Vaughan is not to be confused with the paragraph as defined by grammarians. Sometimes Vaughan's product is no more than a sentence, and seldom does it exceed two. When successful, it is a marvel of compression, laced with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph is an uncompromising medium," says Vaughan. "In 25 or 30 words you have to say something wise or funny, with no chance to pad it out or conceal the lack of point. Also, the paragraph presupposes some information on the part of the reader. The paragrapher can't explain what...
Sticks & Stones. Sarah's real-life precocity was long a marvel to her friends and a burden to her family. She was no early beauty. She had a face shaped like a teardrop and (she says) "ears that flapped like cabbage leaves." At Roedean she followed up her gaffe before the Queen Mother with other capers that ranged from throwing water on the headmistress to mayhem on the playing fields, where she broke the legs of two schoolmates ("but only one seriously-cricket is such a deadly dull game, I took aim at girls llegs"), cracked the collarbone...
...sloping walls make the interior resemble a giant attic. The sleeping loft, fitted with mattresses or cots, is tucked under the roof and is reached by a ladder. But for the adaptable family or unfettered weekend group, a well-planned, well-finished A-frame can be a marvel of fun and utility...