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...track. When its speed has decreased sufficiently, a large landing parachute will unfold. A big rubberized "doughnut" will inflate around the capsule's base, designed to cushion the impact if it drops on land, or to keep it afloat if it falls in the ocean. A tracking beacon, two-way radio, flashing lights, sofar bombs (for underwater sound) and dye markers will guide search parties...
...Sale of the News leaves Knight with four papers: the Akron Beacon-Journal (circ. 163,191), Detroit Free Press (463,469), Miami Herald (270,573) and Charlotte (N.C.) Observer...
Even though it was December, the winter around us with all its vital austerity, I asked her to my room again and again. But again and again, Snyde stayed around. Snyde--blond, from Beacon Hill, via Concord Reformatory--I hated him. He stayed around, picking his nose, reading old Crime book reviews and playing those acid esoteric Mozart quartets when I wanted Fantasy in Flyland and Ravel to work upon her soul...
Slug? In Louisville, Ohio, a man walked into the Beacon Finance Co., told a clerk he had business there but first wanted to borrow a nickel for a parking meter, went out with the nickel, soon returned and pulled a $900 stickup...
...rescue just as fast from Strategic Air Command bases in Newfoundland and Greenland as from Alaskan Command points. From SAC's Thule Air Base in Greenland, cover planes flew across the earth's top to circle Ice Skate and keep in touch lest the camp homer beacon fail. At Harmon A.F.B. in Newfoundland, SAC put on standby two crack C-123J crews who were familiar with ice landings. This time, instead of landing on a 10,000-ft.-to-20,000-ft airstrip, a single rescue plane had to make a dark-of-night touchdown on a Band...