Word: pencilers
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...brilliant white flash lit the horizon, and the pencil-shaped Atlas slowly, silently lifted into the air, gaining speed, her exhausts pushing down neat twin yellow-white flames. Then, almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf...
Nothing is more critical to this program than good teachers. When a professor who has the student's confidence criticizes a piece of work, if only for a minute, the effect is infinitely greater and more permanent than a lengthy treatise in red pencil at the bottom of a blue-book or essay. Perhaps the graduate student who writes there is a better critic than the professor; it does not matter, for the student doesn't know that, and the comment carries little meaning...
...villa at Cannes. But when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they put me in prison without paper or pencil, I would draw with spit on the cell walls...
...Then they caused the gelatin to precipitate on the oil droplets, enclosing them in capsules only one ten-thousandth inch in diameter. This trick solved the problem. The capsules and clay can be on the same side of the paper, but the paper remains white until pressure of a pencil or impact of a typewriter breaks the capsules; then the ink mixes with clay and turns blue...
...Royce H. Savage directed a verdict acquitting Bulloch and two other defendants. When the verdict was announced, Reporter Bulloch, 49, who had contended that vengeful racketeers and politicians had tried to frame him, quietly moved from the defendant's bench to the press table, calmly picked up his pencil and paper, and started covering the rest of the case against 17 other Oklahomans who were charged with conspiracy. Sixteen of them, including the police commissioner, police chief and six members of the force, were convicted...