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Feeling ill, Barbara Jane Mackle, 20, a tall, slender, attractive brunette, abruptly excused herself from an exam at Atlanta's Emory University last week. She checked in at Rodeway Inn, a motel near the campus, there joined her mother Jane, who had arrived earlier from Coral Gables, Fla., to take Barbara home for Christmas. During the evening, Barbara's boy friend and fellow student, Stewart Woodward, drove over in his white Ford for a visit...
...light which failed some hours before she was found. She had spent an estimated 80 hours underground. Still wearing the red-and-white nightgown that she had on when she was abducted, Barbara Jane was nevertheless reported in good condition. She was immediately flown to her distraught parents in Coral Gables, while the FBI pressed a nationwide hunt for Krist and Schier...
...mind that has stopped and a body that will not quit. Their relationship, on the skids before the film begins, collapses utterly when George learns that she is to be written out of the program. The bearer of the sad tidings is a venomous BBC executive, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), who doesn't give Childie a second look-she is too busy with the first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child she bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years...
...whom were about to die under murderous machine-gun fire even before they could splash ashore. From the air, Tarawa looked like a peaceful string of jade beads carelessly tossed on a dressing table. Each of the islands surrounding the lagoon is a bit of equatorial sand and coral nourishing coconut palms, breadfruit and pandanus trees. But on the bird-shaped island of Betio at the end of the string, the scars of war may not be erased for 100 years. Surprising evidence still remains of the ghastly battle fought on the half square mile of all but forgotten real...
...gentle, uncomplaining people of Bikini did not protest the decision to take their atoll away from them, perhaps forever. When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel. "If the U.S. Government needs to use our houses for the goodness of mankind," Juda decided, "then by the kindness of God we are willing...