Word: outerness
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...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...
Excursioning to the Outer Hebrides with classmates from Scotland's stiff-upper-lip Gordonstoun School, bonnie Prince Charles, 14, stepped up to the bar of the Crown Hotel, Stornoway, manfully plunked down two and sixpence for a cherry brandy. It was grand fun until his royal bodyguard collared him, shooed him off to join the boys for dinner and a movie (It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield). But since Scottish law sets 18 as the legal drinking age, that spot of brandy soon splashed into headlines, and Buckingham Palace-perhaps mindful that Britannia has waived the rules...
...bell-shaped Apollo capsule, strap themselves into contour couches and await the blast-off into a challenging two-week adventure. Through the capsule's windows, they will see the flash and smoke of blastoff, then the approaching clouds, the indigo sky, and finally the star-speckled blackness of outer space. Later, as they view the looming surface of the moon, they will begin another countdown to launch a smaller detachable capsule for a lunar landing. Before the astronauts see earth again, their skill and nerves will be severely tested by instrument failures, pressure drops, misfiring retrorockets and unexpected heat...
...Imperial Chemical Industries has already started a petrochemical complex. The port is building a new grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed for a $25 million Benelux Tunnel under the Maas River to make access to the outer port easier; Rotterdammers are also building a subway in the soggy soil by dredging a canal down their main street, lowering concrete tubes into it, then pumping the tubes out; eventually they will be covered with earth...
Invasion of Privacy. Predictably, this outer, middle-class placidity masks a history of inner whirl-some past, some still to come. Hints dropped to the sister by Elizabeth's friends, a series of flashbacks, provide Elizabeth with a full set of sexual and social complexes. The mother-dominated daughter of a New York social snob, she has been nudged into a more active life and a less glittering marriage by her democratic-minded father. For years she has tried to live down to her husband's in come, loyally cultivated the rest of the faculty for the good...