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...hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket to check it out. If all goes well, fuel specialists attach the plumbing that will fill the projectile's maw with explosive cargoes of liquid oxygen and kerosene, or intractable liquid hydrogen...
...just possible some of them might have been pushed off a 40-story building. When De Kooning discovered Marilyn Monroe as a subject in the mid-1950s, and long before pop artists cottoned to her contours, he painted her as half Lilith, half maneater, with a pneumatic maw worthy of Kali...
...pace that most fish can exceed with ease. But the skindivers learned that, fast as fish are, most of them are too lazy to take evasive measures. They swim languidly for a while to keep ahead of the net, but eventually they tire and drift back into its maw. After that, they are stuffed into its trailing "cod end," from which there is no escape...
...long, subtly curving fuselage, the strange little canard wing tacked on near the nose, the great, boxlike maw of the engine air intakes have all combined to earn North American's XB-70A the mildly derisive nickname, "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent." But as it taxied out onto the runway at Palmdale, Calif., last week, Cecil seemed to come alive with new dignity. That single plane designed to cruise at three times the speed of sound may be all that is left of the Air Force dream of big supersonic manned bombers, but all by itself...
...bears. But the couple had already been waiting for three years because everybody thought they were too young. So the wind blew, the temperature dropped to 23°, and Actor Brandon de Wilde, 21, who played in The Member of the Wedding at seven, and Manhattan Deb Susan Margot Maw, 18, got married anyway. Then they headed south for a warming honeymoon, which meant that Susan was leaving her studies at Bryn Mawr, to say nothing of the holiday ball at which she was scheduled to debut...