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Sagitarius. New England legislators will call an end to daylight saving time when cows stop giving milk on account of darkness. Billy Graham will ask, in a press interview, "What's the Harvard Divinity School?" reducing considerably the odds on him as the new dean. A U.S. plane will be shot down...
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...more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick to turn on their landing lights to identify themselves...
...sober, too lethal when drunk. He killed his best friend in a quarrel over local politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified so roguishly, with such good humor, that they both went free...
...field of vision narrow's, so the armed forces require all flyers to breathe extra oxygen above 10,000 ft. in daylight (above 5,000 in darkness). Up to 15,000 ft., most flyers remain conscious without oxygen, but their working efficiency is reduced. After 15 minutes to an hour at approximately 18,000 ft., nearly all (unless acclimatized like Alpinists) lose consciousness. But before a man does so, he may have strange delusions. Classic example: a reconnaissance pilot in the western Pacific in World War II refused to bother with oxygen and thought he was taking magnificently daring...