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...Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
...Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion model (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949): a woolen evening wrap shaped like a cocoon, with a single saucer-sized button under the chin. The color: hot canary...
...incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna and an equally lovely brunette named Ilmuth. It ended with a reassuring lecture up there from a great teacher ("No, my son, your world is not the lowest in development in the universe"). Thereafter, space-traveling George styled himself "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher...
...beam of 10 cm. waves shot into the air by a dish antenna. A nest of these tubes can be focused at a point about 50,000 ft. up. Some of the beams' energy will wander off into space, but Raytheon scientists believe that a saucer-shaped receiver can capture 35% to 50%. Turned into heat, this energy could drive a gas turbine which would drive the helicopter blades...
...index, only four points below the alltime peak. Where to in 1959? As usual, the forecasters see clearly for six months: a gradual, continuing recovery without explosive boom. Says Louis J. Paradiso, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "1959 will be moderate. The graph will go back to saucer form. The momentum of the recovery will show a very good rate of increase in the first half, with the second half showing no acceleration...