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...Flash Powder...
...World War I, a New England physics professor, Robert Goddard, had become interested in the use of rockets for studying meteorology. In 1919, he published a mathematical analysis of a meteorological rocket and pointed out that the same principle could be used to carry a charge of flash powder to the moon, where its ignition would be visible from earth. In 1926, he launched the world's first successful liquid-fuel rocket. It rose...
...Louis. It went in with Lo's Hong Kong Soya Bean Products Co. to create a new, more flavorful soy-bean drink called Puma, which has more than 100 flavor ingredients, including vanilla, orange and cinnamon. Monsanto's Hong Kong subsidiary, Lomond Ltd., will produce the powder concentrate for Puma. The first franchise operations are now being set up in Guiana and Taiwan, and several others are expected to follow soon in other parts of Asia and Latin America. Lo, who owns one-fifth of the company's shares and gets royalties on Puma sales, is managing...
...year-old woman was bayoneted in the back; a 13-year-old boy died with a bayonet wound in the head. Others were shot at such close range that hospital attendants found powder burns on their clothes. As some in the crowd fled in panic and others dived to the ground, student snipers opened fire on the troops from surrounding apartments. For ten minutes, massive gun fire reverberated through the plaza, and sporadic gunfire continued for another hour. Italian Authoress Oriana Fallaci, on assignment for L'Europeo magazine, was shot in the back and leg; two men standing beside...
...that he be allowed a dry run of the program before committing himself to go through with it. CBS, whose executives considered the show such a top secret that they referred to it only as "Project X," dispatched carpenters to Carnegie Hall to shore up the aging stage. Talcum powder was sprinkled between the boards to eliminate creaks caused by the movement of cameras. TV crewmen were provided with velvet slippers. Producer-Director Roger Englander boned up on scores so that camera angles could be synchronized with changes in the mood of the music. Then, one day last January...