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...attached to the blunt heat shield of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's two-man Gemini capsules, and it will be heaved aloft by a hefty Titan III rocket, which, with its two solid-fuel boosters, develops as much as 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...building materials developed in Russia and another in Salerno to make aluminum products. Valerio has set up a division to manufacture calculating machines, linked an Edison oil outfit to a U.S. drilling company, and bought a slice of a big Italian pasta maker. But Edison's main thrust will probably be into chemicals, which form the largest base of the new combine...
...Dunne deserves to be remembered for his more lighthearted days, when not even Montaigne was Mr. Dooley's master: "Thrust ivrybody but cut th' ca-ards." "A vote on th' talleysheet is worth two in th' box." "Most vigi-taryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannybals...
...make their new thrust even more powerful, the family's two main branches-in Paris and London-are starting to fuse again in a series of ventures, after a separation of more than half a century. Together they have created firms to put up buildings on the Continent, to make industrial loans in the U.S. and to tap the mineral wealth of an area in Canada bigger than England and Wales combined. The two also recently formed a joint company-appropriately called Second Continuation Ltd.-to give the French house a stake in the British bank and enable them...
...long funeral procession of Capuchin friars marches slowly along the battlements. The huge corpse on the leading bier seems to exude dark passion even in death. The gloom lifts as the second bier passes, revealing a woman whose beauty shows through her burial shroud. At a distance, vengeful soldiers thrust a man into an iron cage and hoist him to the top of a tower for the birds to abuse...