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Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted...
...quarter-scale model to clay mockup with all the anxious looks a young father-to-be bestows upon his wife. Now he slowly circled the car, squinting at its lines and lightly touching its smooth surface. When his eye lighted on a horizontal crease in the molding of the trunk, he shook his head. "That's not good," said Curtice. "You'll see that it casts a shadow on the bottom half of the lid. That shadow makes the car look higher and narrower. What we want is a lower automobile that looks wider." At the side...
...pulled to a stop in front of No. 626. It had once been a bus until Mrs. Ellen Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of "Congrelephant," and made it over. From the front hung an elephant's trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield. To the housewives of Ivanhoe Street, the Congrelephant was not nearly so exciting as a simple black Chrysler limousine that pulled up 15 minutes later. The limousine brought Mamie Doud Eisenhower...
...Force Medical Services worked first on the "partial-pressure suit," which covers the trunk, arms and legs but leaves the hands and head free. The Navy took the job of trying to devise a full (i.e., overall) pressure suit without the disadvantages of "frozen" joints and clubfingers. Now the Air Force is trying to improve on the Navy's work, and under military security both services are testing suits that they believe are markedly superior to any models the public has been told about. In everyday use, the "partial" suit is worn with a pressurized crash helmet...
Steerage Class. In Milwaukee, after Mrs. Fannie Riley found him sleeping in a trunk in her attic and called police, Army Sergeant John J. Yess, unable to account for either the position or the imposition, complained: "This ship has the smallest berth I ever slept...