Word: walls
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Perforated Walls. The revolutionary rifle is the brainchild of Belgian Chemical Engineer Jules van Langenhoven, a gun fancier who began to experiment with new propellants in 1951 in an effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified...
Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...
...Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site; the principal ruin ultimately became known as the Wailing Wall...
...briefly with a Wall Street firm-as a messenger. At a shoe factory, his job was so lowly that "even the office girls wanted me to address them by their last names." He even worked for 20th Century-Fox, where he sent complimentary tickets for premières to dignitaries. "I now would like to apologize to former Mayor Wagner," said Joe, "whose ticket I gave to my grandmother...
...They Can Handle." With a current fleet of 25 jet planes, five turboprops and 160 older piston models, the supplemental are shedding their seat-of-the-pants image. One evidence is Wall Street's increasing interest. Nashville-based Capitol International Airways (1966 sales: $31 million) and Miami-based Saturn Airways (1966 sales: $27 million) both went public last month. Overseas National Airways (1966 sales: $11 million) plans to float a 470,000-share offering this week. Shares of Trans International Airlines (1966 revenue: $31 million) have jumped from $23 to $48 in the over-the-counter market since...