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...excitement of a graduation weren't enough to set even a WAVE all agog with excitement, the NSCS has tossed in as the piece de resistance a final examination on the very last morning of School. so while we sit at our desks surrounded by half-filled cruise boxes with our heads in a whirl of personal travel problems and considerations of to ship or not to ship, we try and try to concentrate on how to solve a mess treasure's messes, and how to set up housekeeping for Lulubelle Noble and her Lieutenant Commander. Privately, we're already...
...kept tinkering with the plane. Heavy rains began to fill the river. The mechanics hitched a rope to the plane's nose and got natives to tug it up the bank. A month after the accident the plane roared down a makeshift runway and took off, leaving natives agog...
Venezuela was agog last week over tales of marvelous amphibian boat-trucks that will open up the heretofore impenetrable reaches of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers...
...this superservice the Army pays the airlines cost plus a percentage of costs (usually 5 to 10%). This is fatter than the deal talked about last month: cost plus $1. But this week most airline operators were too agog over their new cargo service even to think about profits. Even if the cash is not rolling in as it once did, many operators figure the ASC is good stuff, as an enforced laboratory it has prodded the airlines into wonders they would not dare try themselves...
...something in it of that same sense of a distant melting pot, of a light shining through the darkness-a great blaze of light. ... It may be the dawn; it may be a conflagration. But whether we believe it to be one or the other, we are all agog to get there...