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Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
...states' rights that Thurmond was battling for, what was the theoretical difference between him and a lot of Northern U.S. citizens who were equally apprehensive of Big Government? The main front of the Dixiecrats, indeed, was a Southern upper crust of mill owners, oil men, tobacco growers, bankers, lawyers, who might have felt more comfortable voting Republican. Would the Dixiecrat party be a kind of political decompression chamber for conservative Southerners, on their way to the Republican party? No; for Tom Dewey also advocated civil rights for the Negro. The Southerners wore their states' rights with a significant...
According to one theory, it was once part of a planet that blew up, and it came from the planet's stony crust but contained traces of the metallic core. A sample was air-expressed at once to the Institute before its radioactivity could diminish much. What it told about its life with the cosmic rays the Institute isn't saying in public...
...electronic trickery he can make the controls and instruments in the cockpit behave as if a fuel line had clogged, or as if a deadly crust of ice were forming on the wings and tail surfaces. He can knock out the radio or devil it with static. He can kindle a fire in the baggage compartment or chill the passengers by knocking out the cabin heating system...
...American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known poems. The book is spiced by anonymous folk verse, including The Whore on the Snow-Crust, a frank 18th Century New England broadside in defense of bundling. For a quarter, a good...