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...hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: An Eclipse of Princes | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...friction drag is eliminated-and this figure includes compensation for the drag caused by the nacelles and for the power needed to run the turbines. With drag so drastically reduced, an airplane uses much less fuel, thus can fly farther or carry more payload. The null will not have its first flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making a joint study with Lockheed to apply LFC to Lockheed's EUR-141 jet cargo plane. Project Manager Don Warner is sure that the sucking slots can increase a C-141's payload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerodynamics: Slotted for Smoothness | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Since the liens were filed, there has been some digging done into Galvin's background. It still doesn't go very deep. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, worked as a null messenger for a time, was fired as a classified advertising salesman from a newspaper in Melbourne. Australia, because the management thought girls sold the ads better. He headed for Hong Kong to seek his fortune. He apparently found it after World War II in the vague area of "mining and transportation," it is said. He has a company in Malaya called Eastern Mining and Metals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: $21 Million Mystery Man | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...platform jutting from a sheer, null gorge in the Zagros Mountains, the Shah of Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Water & Blood | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...year-old Orange-Nassau line. Closely sheltered, she led so desperately lonely a life that she once admonished one of her dolls, "If you are naughty, I shall make you into a queen, and then you won't have any other little children to play with." Null & Void. In her solitude, she developed a faith so intensely personal that whenever her English governess insisted on praying with her, she wrote: "I declared the prayer null and void." She was an imperious little girl. One morning, when she knocked at her mother's bedroom door and was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Caged No More | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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