Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar farther and faster, rockets need a super-fuel with more bounce to the ounce. Most such concoctions are too volatile to handle. Last week Bell Aircraft announced success in taming one of them-liquid fluorine-which might boost rocket-payloads 70%. That would be enough to orbit U.S. satellites considerably bigger than Russia's very heavy Sputnik...
...Douglas asked the group, and those who had not been convinced at the outset admitted that they had been converted to "the wilderness concept." Not until the end did the opposition show up: Larry Venable, a Port Angeles freight-service company executive, greeted the hikers with signs that Said, SUPER HIGHWAYS FOR 47 STATES BUT PRIMITIVE AREAS FOR us, and, less subjectively, BIRD WATCHER GO HOME. Douglas tipped back his battered hat, hitched up his shapeless pants, said: "Sorry you couldn't be with us on the hike...
...ordinary little girls but a special kind he calls "nymphets." As Humbert explains it in a passage that is typical of his style: "You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs-the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid...
...Dawn. The night before, KLM Flight 607E, a two-month-old Super Constellation en route from Amsterdam to New York, had put down at Shannon Airport, and its passengers had trooped into the lounges and duty-free shops to sip Irish coffee, have a last buying spree, scribble a few final postcards. On board the economy flight when it took to the air again were its crew of eight and 91 passengers, including three babies in arms, a honeymoon couple, 13 members of the Church of the Brethren from Lancaster County, Pa., three Polish immigrants to the U.S., an Israeli...
...consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much to see the show as to pick up one night's box office receipts (dollar estimate: $5,700). A super-prize is being mulled: an entire island off the coast of Scotland, complete with railroad station, stores, homes and a small hotel. After that-Bert Parks...