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...silver Mainliner smashed into the edge of a 1,500-ft. brush-covered mesa, cartwheeled over and went careening into a canyon. Early-morning factory workers in nearby Decoto, twenty miles southeast of Oakland, saw a blinding flash and "the big tail of a plane flopping over the crest," heard the explosions crashing through the canyons...
...fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent for throwing an inkwell at the mother superior, her year's work in a pottery factory...
...suit him, Vasily would hurl it on the floor, stamp out, and roar away in his plane to stunt off his anger. He drank brandy and vodka in gulping draughts from breakfast until bedtime. The base soccer team, the Stalin Commandos, either in victory rode the dizzying crest of his pleasure or in defeat the depths of his displeasure...
Darby left the Senators with one last warning: don't rush things. He did not want the Eisenhower boom to crest too early. Wait until fall, he told them...
Flood stories are nothing new in the Midwestern flatlands, and most seasoned editors are old hands at covering them. But last week, as the crest of the area's costliest flood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) swept down the Missouri to the Mississippi, the big job for many editors was not merely to report the flood; it was to find ways to print papers in flooded plants and get them distributed...