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Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...Compass Points. The fix the U.S. is in was primarily caused by the catastrophic drop in auto sales and the extreme cuts by many industries in inventories and production (see chart). Another characteristic of the 1958 recession is that it is spotty and regional...
...certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into...
Missionary zeal once beat strong in Judaism; the Pharisees, said Jesus, would "compass sea and land to make one proselyte" (Matthew 23:15). This proselytizing urge vanished in the Diaspora, but the time may have come to compass land and sea again. So thinks Robert Gordis, professor of Bible at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and of religion at Columbia University...
From all points of the compass and most segments of the political and economic spectrum gathered an international Who's Who of high finance and high office. Through the Fairmont Hotel's marble-pillared lobby trooped old-line cartel capitalists and socialist bureaucrats, Japanese financial shoguns and silk-clad Burmese magnates. From London came financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany...