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...abortive effort to place a 20-in. weather satellite into orbit, the Navy's hard-luck Vanguard rocket belched flames and steam, rose three-quarters of an inch off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, then settled gently back into place. Because of a "random failure," the first-stage rocket engine had shut off automatically just in time to prevent Vanguard from toppling over and exploding, saving it to fly again another day. Vanguard's sorry record to date: seven tries, six failures...
Right then and there the steam went out of the meeting, but Front Royal parents had at least made it clear that there is a limit to patience and endurance...
...times earnings in 1949, 10.2 in 1953, and 12 times earnings at the bottom of the decline last October. But few security analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish. Only a minority last winter foresaw the rise. Some of that minority's present opinions...
...Turkish baths go, the establishment beneath London's Imperial Hotel in Russell Square is one of the best. From its Gothic galleries, stone monarchs and prophets (Queen Elizabeth I, Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig...
Great blocks of ice were brought in to cool the pool, and enough pent-up steam was allowed to escape into the London air to sweat out a whole year's hangovers. The cavernous chambers were abustle with well-stacked nautch girls, brushing bare bellies with Indian waiters serving cha-patties. The only washroom was carefully labeled "Co-educational-On Your Honor Please!" Behind the bar a lily-twined manneken-pis arched a thoughtful stream at a stone death's head that looked like many a guest would feel on the morning after. There were two dozen freshly...