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...Eden family seat for 400 years was Windlestone Hall, a porticoed ocher pile surrounded by lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
Long Arm. In Tampa, police closed their books on a case of suspected murder after they got word from the FBI that the human bones they had discovered in a trash pile belonged to a prehistoric Indian...
...contemplates her own round as a housewife (in Darien, Conn.) and mother of five children. "My mind reels . . . What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. It puts the trapeze artist to shame. Look at us. We run a tight rope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby carriage, parasol, kitchen chair . . . Steady...
...morning next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...