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Invasion of Privacy. Predictably, this outer, middle-class placidity masks a history of inner whirl-some past, some still to come. Hints dropped to the sister by Elizabeth's friends, a series of flashbacks, provide Elizabeth with a full set of sexual and social complexes. The mother-dominated daughter of a New York social snob, she has been nudged into a more active life and a less glittering marriage by her democratic-minded father. For years she has tried to live down to her husband's in come, loyally cultivated the rest of the faculty for the good...
...loved the Washington social whirl, but complained that parties in the capital end too early. "People." he liked to say, "begin to tell the truth only after midnight." Per Jacobsson, international monetary expert, spent most of his life trying to get men and nations to face the truth before midnight-the cold, hard truth of fiscal discipline. With a rare talent for understanding politics as well as economics, he was a master of compromise-and a stickler for principle. When France's franc was faltering, he told the imperious Charles de Gaulle...
...19th whirl around the earth Cooper had discovered that he was in trouble. A small green light went on unexpectedly; the light, used in connection with the pull of gravity, is supposed to flash only when the spacecraft is coming back into the earth's atmosphere...
...peanut oil. Its basic works are uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train and power Navy landing craft, Marine...
Last spring the RGA, in a whirl of controversy, liberalized Radcliffe social rules to permit juniors and seniors to sign out to any time in the evening that they wished--even over-night--without the permission of the head resident. At the same time RGA abolished chaperonage regulations...