Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour ended, some of the reporters who had started out openly hostile had a new impression. Riding in his United Air Lines DC-6B, the "Dick Nixon Special," they were astonished by the thoroughness and efficiency of the operation.* At the back of the aircraft there was a private cabin serving as the candidate's office; there was also a work area, with typewriters and a duplicating machine, for his staff. At times the staff numbered 13, including two secretaries, two press aides, a tour manager and a doctor. A corps of advance men ranged ahead to see that...
Chart & Report. In the candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people...
...extinguish your cigarettes. We are arriving in Tunis." A moment later she called out the routine "Please do not move till the plane is completely stopped," then disappeared into the pilot's compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This is how you can trust the French...
...pilot's depth perception. He kissed the plane onto the hard waves, touching gently at first. Then it bounced hard, whipped around violently as an engine tore loose, snapped in two. Quickly the crew discharged and inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train's small boats had picked up all survivors-only five were slightly injured-and deposited them, snuggled into blankets, aboard the cutter. Eleven minutes later, what was left of the Stratocruiser disappeared in the foam...
...rigid, strong-walled cabin of a bathyscaphe (diving ship) have descended 13,300 ft. to the bottom of the ocean, and such diving is physically easy. The pressure they feel remains about the same throughout the dive. But when a man goes to the bottom in a flexible diving suit (as he must if he wants to do any work there), he is not sheltered from the pressure of the water, which increases about one pound per square inch for every two feet of descent. The air that he breathes, pumped into his helmet through a tube from the surface...