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...Loves. Lavrinc had two loves: his flying and his family. Son of a Pennsylvania pipe fitter, he was schooled in Navy radar in World War II, later went to the airlines as a ground communications man. In 1948, while working with the Panagra line in South America, Lavrinc met and married brunette Bonnie Maupin, a Braniff Airways reservations girl. He diligently took flying lessons on his own, qualified as a copilot with Piedmont in 1951, advanced to captain six years later...
Buttoning Up. Challe paced the lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...
...Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
...instruments of modern war, the Sidewinder missile is one of the most cunningly calculated to wreak destruction. Carried by a fighter, the Sidewinder has a sensing device in its nose that is attracted by the infra-red radiation of a jet engine's hot tail pipe. Zigzagging at first like the sidewinding desert rattlesnake, the missile finally gets the range and darts for the kill. Last week, in the sky over New Mexico, a Sidewinder demonstrated its deadly efficiency all too well...
...implications of the atomic bomb. "I'm no scientist, you know," he said. "I knew nothing about it except that it was a device of some kind to produce a very big explosion." Washington, Attlee insisted, had not kept him fully informed. "But," he added, sucking on his pipe, "that is a kind of post-mortem thought...