Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landing at Phoenix, Barry hopped into his wife's new blue Lincoln Continental, toyed happily with a new gadget that adjusts the outside rear-view mirror from inside, and purred off to his house. (He keeps a Corvette Sting Ray in Washington, is fitting it out with enough gauges and gadgets to make it look like Faith 7). In the evening, he was off again to address R.O.T.C. students at nearby Arizona State University, gave them a talk about freedom and the necessity of manned aircraft in the space age, went home again to sip bourbon and water and fiddle...
COUNTRY? shouted the Daily Mirror. As if anyone didn't know. What went on was just the kind of story on which the Mirror thrives. Although it had started out merely as venery in high (and several low) places, it grew into a major scandal that not only smashed the career of a promising Tory politician, but also raised some troubling questions about British security and rocked the Macmillan government. Otherwise, it read like La Dolce Vita, Anglo-Saxon style...
...spacecraft from losing its way. The device is deceptively simple in conception, but like most space hardware, it is complex in construction. Essentially, it is a mechanical eye that sweeps the sky and is rigged to notice only the 50 brightest stars. Its main working part is a small mirror that rotates inside a window, scanning narrow strips of black space. When the mirror's field of view crosses one of the 50 stars, a photocell reports the star's position to a computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them...
...Dancers fraught with more than usual inhibitions are instructed to "ignore the mirror," or, failing that, to "cover it." Invalids are permitted to move only the movable parts of their bodies, following the rest of the directions in their minds...
...bristled the fashion writers. The trend was there all right, they insisted, but cautious, turtle-paced British Shoe had not moved fast enough to catch it. "The truth is," said London Daily Mirror Woman's Editor Felicity Green, "that you stocked square toes too late. Mr. Clore." Fashionata Green even offered Clore a look at next season's shoe styles-low heels, high vamps, crescent-shaped toes. So far, few British Shoe stores appear to be stocking the style of the future. For one thing, the company was still worried about fashion writers. For another, it has recently...