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...minutes later Vag arrived at the foot of the mountain where the contestants for the Fourth Annual Belknap Hill Climb were gathered. Vag downshifted to decrease speed and increase noise as he drove past the M.G.'s, the Austin Healey's, and the Porsches. He finally parked his car between an Aceca Bristol and a Veloce. After a cursory glance at his surroundings, Vag strode over to a group of drivers. They were listening to a young man in a blue coverall who was standing atop a blue Porsche...
...Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course. The TWA plane, flying at 17,000 feet, ran into a thunderstorm and requested permission from a Civil Aeronautics Administration station, to climb to 21,000 feet; the request was turned down because the UAL plane already occupied that altitude. The TWA pilot then asked to fly 1000 feet "above the weather"--a normal request that was granted...
...Kansas' District Judge Beryl R. Johnson, speaking in Topeka: "As we climb the summit to confer, we must be mindful that the leaders who have described their dictatorship as a 'domination of the proletariat over the bourgeois,' have little regard for the sanctity of contract and do not believe that people have certain unalienable rights...
...come back. That is the problem before me, and it is not a question that can be solved by loud acclamation." He was hoping to leave in a fortnight with his daughter Indira for the cool, piny forests of Uttar Pradesh, there to sleep under the stars, ride ponies, climb mountains and go boating. He had served his country as leader for 10½ years, and felt "flat and stale...
...Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Professor Tillich cites Hegel fourteen times, and Russell not once. If England...