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...report, rocket enthusiasts began to clot together in little societies. The science of celestial mechanics (motions of the planets) had been highly developed by the astronomers. The astronauts took it over, added some features of their own. Long before World War II, when no rocket had flown above buzzard altitude, they drew charts of imaginary voyages to Mars or Venus that match almost exactly those drawn today...
...morning last week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank...
...YARD BACKSTROKE: 1. Plourbe (Bowdoin), 2. Dolbey (Yale), 3. Earley (Yale), 4. Kirk (Army), 5. Harris (Cornell), 6. Wolf (Cornell)--2:11.1. 220-YARD FREESTYLE: 1. Anderson (Yale), 2. Cornwell (Yale), 3. Goodman (Army), 4. Ellison (Yale), 5. Bahrenburg (Dartmouth), 6. Bronston (Yale)--2:07.0. 100-YARD BREASTSTROKE: 1. Buzzard (Syracuse), 2. Johnston (West Chester Teachers), 3. Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY...
...British Foreign Office official, Stevenson came out of the war a lieutenant commander and took his first newspaper job pedaling a bicycle on rural news beats for England's weekly Leighton Buzzard Beds and Bucks Observer. He had worked his way up to Fleet Street by 1948, when he moved to Canada. The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman. Then he joined the Star. In 1949 his first self-invented foreign assignment took him to Yugoslavia to check up on 3,000 Yugoslav immigrants who had left Canada for Tito's Marxist paradise...
There used to be a saying to the effect that "England never surrenders." Now, just look at those English ladies kissing Malenkov in your April 2 picture-even Judas Iscariot would have hesitated to buss that buzzard...