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...doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...
...cheer was restored to the room as Mrs. Khrushchev came through the door, wearing one of her fashion-setting dresses by GUM, and followed by her daughter, a vivacious, plump girl...
...Lenten pastoral letter, Britain's William Cardinal Godfrey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, suggested that 1) Catholic families observe Ember Friday (Feb. 24) by fasting and donating the money thus saved to relief of the "hungry and starving," and 2) pets be fed with less expensive foods. "A plump and pampered poodle might run all the more gaily after a reduced diet, simpler fare, and perhaps after having been denied a visit to the hair stylist. If this suggestion seems odd, turn to the third chapter of the Book of Jonas, in which we read that, at the thought...
...volt electrons of ordinary microscopes are not powerful enough to penetrate the two layers of film and the plump, water-filled bodies of healthy bacteria. So the upper part of Dupouy's sphere is filled with a powerful accelerator that delivers a beam of million-volt electrons. They are tricky and dangerous to handle, but carefully measured bursts of them pass through living bacteria and make meaningful shadow pictures of their insides, magnified 25,000 times. The bacteria are little the worse for their experience. Dupouy testified almost affectionately that when they are taken out of the formidable microscope...
Kennedy's 1960 chart shows a couple of colds, a touch of laryngitis and a short-lived bout with sinusitis. At 43, he is a trim, tanned 6 ft., although a recent gain of 10 Ibs. (to 175) showed in his plump cheeks. His blood pressure is a normal 112/80. But he has had a troubled medical past...