Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, doing its best to keep a stiff upper lip over such headstrong conduct, the Commonwealth Relations Office was plainly no longer so enthusiastic over Nkrumah. Harrumphed one official: "The best way of putting it would be to say at this point we are tolerant of Dr. Nkrumah's actions...
...would be quickly deported, but the FBI had other plans. Breaking into Abel's cluttered studio, agents found much besides art: finely fashioned drills for hollowing out rings and cuff links and making them into message holders, a book on cryptoanalysis, maps of Chicago and Washington and upper New York State, radio tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want...
Other journalists before Altrincham had said harsher things about reigning royalty, but coming from a member of the peerage -well. In point of fact, Lord Altrincham is no more to the manner born than Earl Attlee or dozens of other latter-day lords in Britain's Upper House. His father, a journalist and longtime civil servant, did not get his barony until 1945, ten years before his death. His son (Eton, the Guards) is an earnest and articulate advocate of what he calls the New Toryism...
Like fishermen trolling in strange water, atomic physicists send instruments groping through the earth's upper atmosphere to trap whatever happens to come by. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota reported that they had caught a whopper: a helium nucleus moving a shade slower than the speed of light with a force at least 150,000 times as powerful as the greatest energy produced by man-the 6 billion electron volts whirled out by the University of California's bevatron...
...controlled as the classics course in a French lycée. At this stage, Istel fears, a major accident would probably give the sport back to the country-fair stuntmen. His gospel spread to another important corner. Istel hustled back to his exurbanite home in New York's upper Westchester County to practice what he preaches. This week Istel will lead an American team of four parachutists to Yugoslavia to compete in an invitational meet against some of the world's best jumpers...