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...shore, the young tar had a rather quieter time. He once went hard-alee for a pretty little Portuguese, and had to do some tricky navigation to get out of port; but in general, says the prim old sea dog, "I always kept a straight course and gave them a wide berth, as I had no use for painted-faced daisies...
...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...Palais Royal, my first New York restaurant." Daughter Barbara never turned out to be as glittering a production as the Palais Royal (eventually remodeled into the lavish Latin Quarter). Nor has she learned to match her father's trick of the casually preoccupied phrase. Nonetheless, in her own quieter way, Barbara Bel Geddes was celebrating last week her undisputed rise to fame and glory as an authentic star in her own right...
...Beethoven's periods, the "early," "middle," and "late," and illustrated many of the most typical features in the composer's development. In performing Opus 18, No. 5, the Quartet seemed particularly conscious of the movement's overall characters. The performers maintained drive throughout the entire first movement, including the quieter parts, and played the Minuet with delicacy and reserve, even in the few places marked forts. The familiar theme and variations brought out the amazing tone and balance of the group in pianissimo passenger such as the fourth variation, and the bouncing fifth variation illustrated the great exuberance that...
Outside the Hotel Metropole in the Rue Paul Bert people were quieter as they studied the news from Korea on the Agence de Presse bulletin board. Little Vietnamese men stood wooden-faced in their sharp suits and pearl grey fedoras, their Parker 51s and antimagnetic, shockproof Swiss wrist watches. They were observing the West's humbling with a terrified, frozen-faced satisfaction; their Western watches are the fancy kind which tell the days of the month, the phases of the moon. As everybody in Hanoi knows, the next full moon occurs...