Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich Talal provided his bride with a few trinkets as well. Items: a necklace containing 263 diamonds and an emerald; an engagement ring with a marquise diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...
...great radio telescope now under construction at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, England will have a "steerable" saucer of copper mesh 250 ft. in diameter. Acting like the concave mirror of an optical telescope, it will concentrate radio frequency waves sent to the earth by dark "radio stars" and faraway galaxies. Mostly it will be busy with the complex problems of astrophysics, but last week Professor A. C. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank research station, admitted that the great dish might be used occasionally on projects with more immediate popular appeal...
...gifts exchanged among royalty. There was a whole case devoted to the works of the great Russian court jeweler, Peter Carl Fabergé (TIME, April 6, 1953), including a resplendent Easter egg presented by Czar Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1914. The egg is made of a transparent mesh of platinum, gold and diamonds, contains a jeweled stand bearing portraits of the Czar's five children. Another Fabergé masterpiece was a 3-in. grand piano of Siberian jade. The most valuable item in Queen Mary's collection: a Potsdam bloodstone box mounted with gold and encrusted...
Home Run. In Atmore, Ala., a baseball game between Atmore State Prison and Kilby Prison ended abruptly in the fourth inning, when prison guards took their eyes off the game long enough to discover that 19 convicts had cut their way to escape through a steel-mesh fence...
Glass Screens. A Fiberglas yarn for window screens has been put on sale by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Highly resistant to corrosion and weathering, the material has the further advantage over metal that it can be dyed in permanent colors. Price of standard mesh screening: about 16½ a sq. ft., approximately the same as bronze or aluminum screening...