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Dappled Gleam. Ceramists have long guessed that the purplish Temmoku glazes with distinctive "oil spots" must require a combination of natural clays rich in iron, fused with something like wood ash. If cooled down quickly after baking, such a mixture is shot through with spots or streaks. But while a spotty glaze is the easiest thing in the world to obtain, the Temmoku glaze with a deep, dappled gleam is apparently one of the hardest. The secret of making it has been lost for about 750 years. Experimenting over the past few months with a variety of natural clays...
...turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that whitened as it rose swiftly into...
...bracket of the All-American semifinals, Maureen blasted Akron's steady Shirley Fry off the court, 6-4, 6-3, with unreachable placements. Then, appearing in a purplish cardigan designed by London's Teddy Tinling (who also designed Gussie Moran's lace panties), she faced Louise Brough, three-time (1948-50) Wimbledon champion, who upset Maureen last May to win the Southern California crown...
...doctors at Memorial drained off the fluid as usual, then injected ten cubic centimeters (two-thirds of a tablespoon) of purplish liquid containing 20 trillion particles of gold. It took a while for the doubly precious metal to work, and Mrs. H. soon had to be tapped again. But by then the radioactive gold had bombarded the cancer cells and checked their multiplication. For the first time in a year, Mrs. H. could enjoy a full meal...
Most of the people came out of the water a purplish-blue from cold. Their teeth chattered uncontrollably and they clutched the nearest object with unreasoning desperation after being hauled to safety. Occasionally their rescuers pulled aboard a corpse. The living gradually told a disjointed tale of disaster. The gleaming white hospital ship, on a shakedown cruise after being taken out of mothballs, had been rammed by the 15,000-ton freighter