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Just for the fun of it one bright December morning in 1931, Pilot Officer Bader decided to buzz the officers' club at Woodley Aerodrome near Reading, rolled into the turf, and lost both legs as a result of the crash. But after eight difficult years spent learning to move skillfully on a pair of artificial legs, he was back in the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, and during World War II Squadron Leader Bader personally accounted for 22½-German planes. His career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach...
Even to optimists, the U.S. proposals for an international atomic agency often seemed like little more than a buzz of oratory. Last week the U.S. produced the goods. Before the U.N., Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. made a bare announcement: the U.S. has allocated 100 kilo grams (220 Ibs.) of fissionable material to be distributed to atomic "have not" nations as fuel for experimental reactors...
...Dave feels the crowd with him and if his psyche is in good order, a unique event takes place. The rhythm seems to take hold of everybody in the room. Drummer Dodge feels it and starts to bang on his Chinese cymbal (an instrument studded with loose rivets that buzz like a dozen sizzling steaks), and his bass drum whaps out compulsively, unpredictably. Bates hunches closer to his bass. Desmond, his lips without their mouthpiece looking like a nearsighted man's eyes without his spectacles, moves quietly away from the piano. Brubeck seems to cut his ties with...
...burn alive Vena, the beautiful navigator for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...
John Bagdasarian led the Leverett attacked with some shifty broken field running, while Roger Vagila, Buzz Smyth and Dan Tyler strengthened the line...