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...shore-to-ship telephone call while still one day out of New York: "Vi estas bonvenita en Usono." Next day a group of enthusiastic Esperantists were at the pier. They whisked the Thollets through customs, drove them to a hotel, took them up the Empire State Building ("Kiel alta!", exclaimed the Thollets), wined & dined them for six days...
Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...
Laboratory Test. In the Wasatch mountains near Alta, Utah, the U.S. Forest Service's avalanche research station had to be abandoned when an avalanche buried the instrument tower under snow and debris...
...headed north. Its destination: Copenhagen, via the Arctic. To trim roughly 650 miles off the regular California-Europe flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne again, driven toward Denmark by 95-m.p.h. tail winds. Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying...
...Other Name. In Calgary, Alta., George and Rosie Big Belly asked the Provincial Secretary what could be done for them under the provisions of "The Change of Name...