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Back in the 16th century a Chinese scholar named Wan-Hu lashed 47 black-powder rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past...
...grateful that 321 avoids them. But the undergraduate and even Mother, would like a little humor. And 321 provides none, even when it is there to be shaken ripe from the limb. The Lamont Dupont feat, handled with some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed to be no mean between the matter-of-fact and outlandish gaucherie. Perhaps the only attempt at literary imagination had to do with...
...Ming Emperor in 1368 rapidly produced an epicurean age of elegance, not unlike that which marked the courts of Europe in the 18th century. The great pottery works of the Sung emperors were revived and expanded. For Emperor Hsuan-te's Dragon Soup Bowl, craftsmen ground rubies to powder to achieve richness of color; court ladies dipped their fingers into exquisite candy dishes for the cardamoms and nutmegs that served as breath sweeteners. Jade was in such demand that by the time of the Manchus there were thousands of workmen carving and polishing objects, many so precious that they...
Sunlight TV Tube. Conventional TV pictures tend to fade out when the light in the room gets too bright. This is because the glowing substance (phosphor) on the face of the picture tube is a reflective powder. In sunlight or other strong light, the reflection gets brighter than the picture and washes the picture...
...loose. New York's "Mad Bomber" was the terror of the city and the darling of crime reporters as he planted his homemade pipe-and-powder bombs in theaters and public buildings. Once captured, he turned out to be quiet, round-faced George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor who was more confused than cunning (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, after studying Metesky's medical reports, Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz...