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...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...Nevertheless, he declared the usual $1 a share quarterly dividend, hoped that the "tremendous existing demand for steel products of all kinds" will eventually make Big Steel's operations profitable. To take the bad taste of all this out of their mouths, stockholders then sat down to a buffet lunch with Chairman Olds and Big Steel's President Ben Fairless...
After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...Nanking and Kiukiang Roads, happy bankers were holding open house amid the excited bustle of guests, buffet lunch eons, congratulations and piles of flow ers sent by the city's many Chinese banks...
...less than a month, the First Lady had I) entertained no Washington newswomen at a White House buffet supper; 2) gone to an ice show in the glittery Iridium Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel; 3) lunched at the exclusive Colony Restaurant with Party-master Elsa Maxwell; 4) attended the opening of the Metropolitan Opera; 5) journeyed to Philadelphia with the President to see the Army-Navy football game...