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Sifting through smoking rubble with the help of a claw shovel, searchers found 34 corpses. Of the survivors, 29 were hospitalized...
Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...Washington, the Maine State Society ordered 500 choice Maine lobsters, gallons of clam chowder and other native delicacies for their annual dinner, invited House Speaker Joe Martin to come along and show how a man from Massachusetts tackles a well-turned lobster claw...
...Misalliance Shaw was even more unbridled than his characters : grown men claw the carpet in temper fits, airplanes fall out of the sky, pistols are cocked, china is smashed, women are chased through heather and hall. If family life has seldom been so discredited, it has seldom possessed such genuine if turbulent charm. Misalliance has, to be sure, its limitations. It could stand cutting; and though its method conquers the audience, in the end it defeats itself. The play can mean so many things that it really means nothing...
...amateur's troubles: for the debut he rented a piano he particularly liked, but he broke a string at rehearsal and had to use an instrument with a brassier tone; then he found that the tuner had cleaned the keyboard and left it so slippery he had to claw at the keys to keep his fingers from skidding. Things went better last week (he warned the management not to clean the keys), but his powerful performance knocked all the A strings out of tune early in the program...