Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Called Ella by her intimates, the princess made occasional short visits to Italy, where her former subjects searched for adjectives to describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut...
...guidance and control purposes, solid-fuel rockets are normally loaded with fuel to full capacity. Thus when one of them is fired at a target short of the maximum range, something must be done to cut off or slow the thrust when the rocket reaches the necessary speed. The flow of liquid fuels can be controlled by valves or pumps. Comparable control can be achieved with solids, said Ritchey, by opening small apertures upstream from the nozzle. The gas that leaks out through them reduces the pressure in the combustion chamber, and the thrust falls...
...hairline Senate election victory last November. Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman Hugh Scott probably swung some votes in job-short Philadelphia by announcing that he had assurance from the White House that a big Government contract would go to Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Few outside Philadelphia paid much heed to the matter then. But last week, when the contract was formally announced, an international storm erupted over the order and the Administration's freer-trade policies...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life...
...France's Marcel Ayme, 56, literary art is the science of the impossible. Characters in Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...