Word: magically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their pilots either "buy the farm" (get killed) or end up at "the Hanoi Hilton" (get captured). The three out of four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides a bottle of champagne, then forks out a month's combat pay that night for drinks...
...first experimental Magic Mirror, backed by the French fashion magazine Elle, has just gone into operation at the Paris department store Au Printemps. A second will be used later this month on the liner La France for trans-atlantic haute couture showings-if a passenger's measurements are already on record in Paris, the dress she selects will be ready when she gets there. Price of the mirror and accompanying projection system...
Audio-Visuel France expects to receive an American patent this month, plans to market Magic Mirror in the U.S. soon afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...
...magic bullets are unimpressive at first glance. Less than 4 in. long and one-tenth of an inch thick, they resemble the steel flechettes (French for "little arrows") used in some U.S. antipersonnel weapons in Viet Nam. What the TRW flechettes lack in size, they make up in penetration power. In recent tests, they punched completely through a 2-in.-thick armor plate that would stop most steel flechettes or heavy-caliber bullets fired...
...they also insisted that extensive use indicates a real problem, and that those who "need a joint every night before they go to bed, take it when they are by themselves, or believe there is some sort of magic in a joint which will somehow change their personality" need professional help...