Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the glass doors of Paris' Elysée Palace one day last week, France's Cabinet wrangled for a record eleven hours. Twice during the discussion angry right-wing ministers stalked out to unburden their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously...
...agreement seemed possible. Keenly aware that his own people would almost certainly repudiate him if he shut off all aid to the Algerian rebels, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba flatly refused a French proposal of a neutral commission to patrol the Algerian-Tunisian frontier. France's right-wing Independents, clinging blindly to the conviction that France can and must suppress the Algerian rebellion, were equally insistent that, if Bourguiba refused, France must reopen its complaint against Tunisia in the U.N. Security Council, even if the East River air should be rent by abuse...
...even London's left-wing New Statesman spotted the Russian trap: "Very well, says Mr. Khrushchev. I have a heavy meal to digest; let us all stop eating until I am hungry again." And even as the Soviets were congratulating themselves on the effectiveness of their "noble gesture" on British public opinion, the steam was visibly going out of Britain's ban-the-H-bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar...
Older critics reacted predictably, crying out against "lacquered monkeys" and their "apelike mumblings," and a right-wing youth leader stormed: "This proves the Japanese should not have freedom!" But the little girls seemed not to hear, and the ,, cascades of streamers and toilet paper did not stop. Brooded Sociologist Hideo Shi-busawa: "Rockabilly is more like a pathetic distortion of religion than an outlet for sex. Rockabilly singers are the preachers of a strange new faith; the lowteens are the faith's blind worshipers...
...Thiokol got into missiles in the same way the rubber was invented-by accident. Its researchers had found a way to process solid Thiokol into a liquid, and during World War II the armed services used it as a sealant for aircraft-carrier decks, pipelines, and the wing tanks of planes (the average commercial plane today carries about 300 Ibs. of Thiokol sealants). Then in 1946 Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a radically new solid rocket fuel, tried mixing an oxidizing agent with rubber. But it had trouble combining the oxidizer with solid rubber, tried liquid Thiokol...