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...increased to 2,000 calories, many lost their appetite. The sailors talked mainly of girls and real food-and in the last few days mostly about food. Though only the two dozen men assigned to step through air locks into a tunnel to check radiation were permitted to shower (a decontamination precaution), the air smelled better than that on a submarine and, says Naval Research Chemist Eugene A. Ramskill, "nowhere near as bad as in a New York nightclub...
...principle at least," replied Kistiakowsky, "one can create weapons which will make shelters less effective. If it is possible--and I'm not for a moment saying that it is--to shower radioactive cobalt in quantities large enough to make the radiation lethal all over the country-side, then a two-week shelter is not enough...
...confidence. Three days later he got married. "Now I can stand on my own two feet," he says, "and disperse anybody who comes up to me and says, 'You are here because of who you are and not because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every...
...Violetta in La Traviata, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, the first American ever to sing with Russia's 110-year-old Tiflis Opera, earned a shower of bouquets, 22 curtain calls and an enraptured chain of escorts all the way back to her hotel. (Ardent Georgians shouted in English: "May I kiss you?") Saving her voice for the remainder of a month-long Soviet tour, Miss Kirsten was later cajoled into a command demonstration of the twist. Said she: "The entire party applauded ecstatically. American culture has triumphed again...
Starting in May, Charles, whose titles include Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun...