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Narrow Margin. Last week Mitchell got another chance. Discoverer XIV had been fired atop a Thor-Agena rocket from Vandenberg, Calif., and once again Mitchell's squadron was alerted. Mitchell slapped a cap on his red-thatched head, kissed his wife and promised: "I'll get it this time, honey." This time he did. But the margin of success was narrow indeed...
...international affairs, as Pearson sees it, with the skill of a chess master. He captured New Amsterdam, and thereby, as it turned out, consolidated England's hold in the New World. Deftly, he outdistanced The Netherlands as a maritime power. Whenever he needed cash, he allowed Louis XIV to bribe him, but contrived to give little value for money. In 1670 Louis agreed to pay Charles ?160,000 to become a Catholic, but-knowing well that open conversion would cause civil war and wreck an Anglo-French alliance-he asked Charles to defer his avowal until "the state...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...
...worst was to come. It was the era of the great royal mistresses (Maintenon, Pompadour, Du Barry) and of the monsters of sex (notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science was eagerly enlisted in the service of love. Late in Louis XIV's reign, a certain Dr. Venette soberly advised that dried Egyptian crocodile kidneys pounded into a powder and diluted in sweet wine made the perfect aphrodisiac...
...alluring real estate. Built in 1902 at a cost of $2,500,00. Whitehall's 39 rooms include a cavernous (110 ft. by 40 ft.) tapestried main hall that once contained one of the largest Persian Kirmanshah rugs ever loomed. Other features: an Italian Renaissance library, a Louis XIV music room, a Louis XV ballroom, a Louis XVI grand salon, 16 guest rooms with decor ranging from Oriental to American Colonial. The Restoration Ball was held there last week to help raise some $2,000,000 for the museum's renovation. Among the luminaries on hand: Florida...