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...nights later the sandstorm still raged, and a second DC-4 was lost Like the first plane, it was also on the final approach to the airstrip. It plunged into the sea within a mile of the first. The passengers who got out clung to the tail, and then, as the plane sank, to its broken aerial wire. Total loss in the two crashes: 85 lives...
...Despite threats from its big Red neighbor, this nation clung to democracy, re-elected its independent President...
...many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...
...Ground. The Army, with the most Negroes, offered the most resistance. During World War II, it had kept most Negroes in transport, quartermaster, and housekeeping duties. Its experience with two Negro combat divisions had been unsatisfactory. It stubbornly clung to segregation, and argued that it had to; most of its bases are in the South...
Britain's dingy, cotton-weaving city of Lancaster (pop. 50,250) has lost most of the glamour and importance that clung to its name in the days of John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses. But it cherishes today one spectacular bloom in the person of its dashing Tory M.P., Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, 39, whose recently published bestseller, Eastern Approaches, has made its author one of the most popular political figures in the United Kingdom...