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...guide, Mr. Harry Schofield, led us down a short stairway, through a glass door, into the Tunnel. "There it is," he said and pointed down a seemingly endless corridor illuminated by incandescent bulbs spaced along the ceiling. The most impressive feature of the Tunnel was its temperature. We had prepared for our expedition by dressing in summer clothing, but the blast of heat that hit us when we entered was unexpected. A thermometer on the wall registered 120 degrees, the highest reading on its scale. For most of our travels, the temperature ranged from this extreme down to a comparatively...
...leading a junta against it. We asked Harry whether unauthorized persons might wander in. "Rarely," he answered. "Occasionally, an outside contractor working in the Tunnel leaves a door open by mistake and a curious undergraduate comes through, but we soon catch him." As he finished his sentence, the long corridor we had been in came to and end, and we found ourselves in a very large, noisy room filled with silver-painted pipes and tanks...
...Seaboard. Radar surveillance planes, which had lumbered aloft earlier, stayed up during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...
Wallace, who was arrested last July after an encounter with a Farmville policeman in a courthouse corridor, had petitioned that his case be heard in federal court. Judge John D. Butzner denied the petition, but ordered a stay in the proceeding until the Circuit Court of Appeals could rule on his decision...
...have tried to eliminate waste at every corner. I don't believe that we are going to make the Treasury over by cutting out a few automobiles or turning out a few lights. But I do think it is a good example when you walk through the corridor and you see the closets where lights burn all day and all night just because someone didn't turn them off." He spoke of the need to take a fresh view of U.S. relations with recalcitrant allies: "People feel that all we need to do is mash a button...