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...Washington art gallery, was asked about the mystery of his aversion to capital letters. Said he precisely: "i use capitals ONLY for emphasiis. after all, that's what they were invented for, weren't they?" On departing to join "Operation Deepfreeze," his fifth Antarctic expedition, lean Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 67, unwarily recalled: "No woman has ever set foot on Little America . the most silent and peaceful place in the world." By the time he reached Dallas on his way to New Zealand, lady pickets awaited him. In high good humor, they waved signs protesting...
...scraps were fitted onto a mockup, the evidence showed that the explosion had occurred in the rear cargo pit, in an area where there were no fuel lines or electric wires that might have caused an accidental explosion. The investigators concluded that the plane had been deliberately blown up by someone who had put a time bomb in the passengers' luggage. If so, it would be the first known case of successful sabotage in the history of U.S. commercial aviation...
Another flock of 1956 models rolled into dealers' showrooms last week -full speed astern. In ads, sales talks and posters, the automakers were putting most of the emphasis on the rear ends of their new cars. The design changes that in other years were known as face lifting, cracked a design expert, should be known this year as "tail lifting," since the major body changes were in back...
...going-away look is dominated by higher, longer rear fenders (now known as "fins," and "air foils") ending in aquiline beaks that sniff disdainfully off into space like ships' figureheads in reverse. The fender line in many new cars, e.g., Cadillac, Plymouth, Chevrolet and Studebaker-Packard's Clipper, was borrowed from the shape of swept-wing aircraft to give autos a jet-propelled look. Cadillac, which has long built taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears...
...novelist's tactic is to take each of the mourners and riddle them with small shot. The corpse is that of Joseph Benjamin Chapin, and with the possible exception of the hero of Trollope's John Caldigate, he is the most greyly dull character to rear his trim, neat, empty head into modern literature...