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...outrage. "Where is Bolivia?" the Queen demanded. A map was brought and the Queen was tactfully shown that La Paz was much too far inland for the guns of a British man-of-war to force a suitable apology. So-says the legend-the Queen took a pen, scratched a few lines across the map and declared: "Bolivia no longer exists...
...strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction had been achieved and the first decade of atomic energy had begun...
...know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
Died. Margaret Wise Brown, 42, best-selling author of childrens' books (more than 60 in 15 years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness...
Slim & Slick. Manhattan's L. E. Waterman Co. began marketing a ball-point pen with a retractable sapphire tip. Slimmer that a conventional pen, it weighs less than an ounce. Waterman claims that the polished sapphire point is "the smoothest writing instrument ever developed." Price...