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...turned way up: "No one has the ghost of an idea how this works, and nothing else in life can ever be so puzzling. If anyone does succeed in explaining it, within my lifetime, I will charter a skywriting airplane, maybe a whole fleet of them, and send them aloft to write one great exclamation point after another, around the whole sky, until all my money runs...
...race was even a bigger test for his unproven jockey, 19-year-old Ronnie Franklin. He came to Churchill Downs a vulnerable boy. He rode past the finish line a triumphant young man, his fist stabbed aloft in celebration...
Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...
FRANCO GAVE US PEACE, JUSTICE AND WORK, proclaimed one of the many signs held aloft by demonstrators. Waiting for the ceremonies to begin, the crowd began to chant, "You notice it! You can feel it! Franco is here!" Then the Spanish national anthem boomed over the loudspeakers, and the Franquistas snapped to attention and put their palms forward in the straight-arm Fascist salute. Bias Piñar, 60, a former Franco appointee to the Cortes and now the leading activist of Spain's diehard rightists, stepped forward from his place beside the dictator's 52-year...
...year ago that 12,000 feminist observers and 2,000 delegates concluded the National Women's Conference in Houston. Spirits and hopes were as high then as the pink and yellow balloons that sported the legend "We are everywhere," sent aloft by the lesbian caucus...