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...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...
...tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying...
...Bounds. The trouble, huffed the Committee, was the failure of Soviet planners to stay within the bounds of "the real possibilities of securing enough material and financial resources for fulfillment of the plans." Out of the chief planning job went chill-eyed First Deputy Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith...
Last week the clatter of hammers, the whine of saws, the growl of a tractor shattered the Pole's chill silence. Under the skilled hands of 24 U.S. Navy Seabees, a tiny community of six multihued polar huts was rising from the snow-the home, for many months to come, of 18 American scientists and Navymen...
Speaking of Murder (by Audrey and William Roos) will raise no goose-pimples or chill no blood, but it has some incidental virtues. It concerns an English blonde who, during a lengthy visit in Connecticut, has done in the wife of the house from a desire to marry the husband. But the husband has married a movie star instead, and the undiscouraged blonde is now ready to have a go at the second wife by suffocating her in a built-in vault in the library...