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After the stunning shock of the election, Republicans were beginning to stir again. Most of them were still trying to figure out what had gone wrong; some were sure they knew...
When a plane is flying at Mach 1 or above, shock waves flare back in a "V" from its nose and wing roots like water waves from the bow of a ship. The swept-back wings keep inside the V, and avoid a tangle with the shock wave...
...Cliffe girls were even more amazed. They found linen tablecloths and napkins, flowers on the table, and PLATES. At Barnard, the shock was too great; they began to sing Christmas Carlos after dinner...
Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...
Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...