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...kill himself. Off Oregon, the pilot had to wait a week for suitable catapulting weather. When it came, he made one 2½-hr. bombing run by daylight, a second 20 days later in the dark. Three of his bombs were duds; the fourth started a small blaze that was quickly spotted and doused by forest rangers. The raid made headlines in Japan, but Fujita got no promotion, no bonus, no glory...
...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) became NASA, and its quiet, effective work on aircraft was obscured by a blaze of space publicity...
...Silver Blaze, one of Sherlock Holmes's cases, a highly important clue is the fact that on a significant occasion a dog did not bark. Similarly, one of the most revealing facts about the U.S. in 1962 is that protectionists-advocates of high protective tariffs-are doing remarkably little barking at a time when they ought to be baying fiercely. President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act, now being worked over by the House Ways and Means Committee, pushes far beyond the old reciprocal trade program. It would empower the President to slash U.S. tariffs by 50% or more...
Rather Cold Passion. She is all right, of course, with Bond beside her in a blaze of bullets and burning motel...
...whole lot of goods, while women shrieked: "What a waste!" When the bonfire had died on White Sand Beach near Seoul last week, $20,000 in small luxuries had been destroyed. Since then the brightest lights on Korea's bleak landscape are from bonfires: a $100,000 blaze in Pusan, a $40,000 fire in Masan. Other fires are due in Seoul until $230,000 in confiscated goods are destroyed...