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Accompanied by Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia...
Winding up their 57-day trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
Those were the days of the "flying wedge," a V-shaped offense (now long outlawed) that cut through defenses like a bulldozer. Pudge devised the classic counter-maneuver: "As the wedge formed, I backed away to get a running start, put on full steam ahead, took off like a broad jumper, knees doubled up, and soared." When soaring Pudge crashed headlong into the man leading the V, the wedge disintegrated...
While driving about the U.S. in the early 19405 gathering material for a weekly syndicated travel column, husky (6 ft. 2 in.) Warren Bayley worked up an explosive head of steam against short beds, rock-hard mattresses and drafty bathrooms. He made up his mind that some day he was going to build a place of his own where travelers could spend the night in comfort...
...high temperature (which favors efficiency) without high pressure, another reactor will have heat-resistant graphite as its moderator and will be cooled by a molten sodium-potassium alloy. Still another will have a novel gimmick. Its cooling water will be allowed to boil, and the steam generated will be used directly to drive a 5,000-kw. turbine. This cuts out the conventional heat exchanger used in the reactor of the submarine Nautilus to generate nonradioactive steam. Dr. Smyth did not say so, but the turbine will probably become so radioactive that it cannot be approached by humans...