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...they found that the locking mechanism on the main door had somehow loosened and the door had sprung. Air from the pressurized cabin was hissing through the crack. The officer went back to the cockpit. Several of the passengers, waking up, watched Steward Harris as he experimentally held a blanket over the crack. He was trying to hang the blanket up when the door flew open...
Caught in the outward rush of air, Harris shot out through the door into the night with arms uplifted, still holding the blanket. While he fell-for about 50 leisurely, dreadful seconds-to his death, the airliner rumbled on, soon landed at New York's International Airport...
...voters a second time. As always, modest, attractive Mrs. Attlee was, in the words of a friend, "quietly piloting Clem, although Clem still sits in the front seat." A suitcase was packed, gas coupons checked, road maps ready and Clem's knees were snugly wrapped in a woolen blanket as Violet swung the Hillman's nose out of Downing Street toward Watford, 17½ miles to the north...
Although Chief Randall cannot understand why so many student never show up for their lost and found articles, there are a few exceptions he can excuse. One of these involves the discovery, early one spring morning, of a warm blanket and four cold bottles of beer under a blooming elm tree in the Yard. Although diligently catalogued in the lost and found file, neither the beer nor the blanket was ever called for. Apparently pride rideth before a call...
...with the cold passion of a martinet and the inner torment of a man of good will. He breaks subordinates, cancels privileges, harangues his crews ("Consider yourselves dead"), disgraces misfits, puts the outfit through elementary training paces and woos such resentment that every pilot accepts his blanket invitation to apply for transfer...