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...Johnson Jr. noticed waiting photographers. Figuring that they were there to film the DC-8 taxiing to the terminal gate, Johnson impishly mugged it up at the cockpit window for the grinding cameras. Then the cabin door swung open and a United Airlines public relations girl leading a covey of newsmen stepped in. "Commander Milton Johnson?" she asked. "I think that...
...death toll was largely attributable to the technology of mid-century America. Thanks to a covey of "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft and a hat-box-shaped, 320-lb. weather satellite called Essa (for the Commerce Department's Environmental Science Services Administration), Beulah's every move was tracked and reported round the clock by radio, thus permitting more than 150,000 Texans to dodge the big storm's flailing fist. Watching from a polar orbit 865 miles above the earth, Essa's twin TV cameras gave the Texas Gulf Coast twelve days' advance warning on her course...
...Administration's call for a 10% surtax on personal and corporate incomes. Well over 300 academic economists mobilized by Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, added their written endorsement. Then came businessmen declaring themselves fit to be tithed and a covey of Administration officials pleading for higher taxes...
...listed on the police blotter as "apparently shot to death in an exchange of gunfire." According to rumors buzzing through the Negro community, they had been murdered in cold blood. After a thoroughgoing investigation of the killings by Detroit News Reporter Joseph Strickland, city officials reluctantly rounded up a covey of witnesses who agreed that the trio had been shot without provocation...
...force at all in Viet Nam. Jean-Paul Sartre, fresh from the Swedish kangaroo court where he helped indict the U.S. for "war crimes" in Viet Nam, demanded a blockade-busting effort to aid Israel-and promptly had his books banned throughout the Arab world as a result. A covey of Democratic doves in the Senate called for swift action to reopen the Tiran Strait...