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Cosmic Tackle. Strangely, the épée-a triangular-bladed descendant of the old dueling rapier-has become thoroughly enmeshed in modern gadgetry. The épée wielder can score by pinking his opponent anywhere on the body; often touches occur almost simultaneously. To give the judges a break, today's épées are equipped with electric switches in their tips. Wires run down the fencers' arms and out the tails of their jackets to reels that are mounted at the end of the fencing strip. A solid touch with either...
What then limits the corporation? Berle goes back to William the Conqueror's ancestor Duke Rollo, who, along with his successors in Normandy and England, was about as absolute a wielder of power as political history knows. Yet Rollo, says legend, was impelled to proclaim that any subject who felt aggrieved could appeal to him by crying "Ha Rollo." This appeal to "the conscience of the King" became the foundation of liberties as the Western world knows them...
...with a special rubber stamp. And more is rumored: that this short (5 ft. 7 in), fat (250 Ibs.), 50-year-old man will inherit Stalin's power. This week, as the19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party convenes in Moscow, great new honors will come to the wielder of Stalin's rubber stamp...
...fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...
Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...