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...Deck the Halls. In Milwaukee, after they had been consulted by an insurance representative for a local department store, University of Wisconsin botanists issued a general warning to several hundred anonymous purchasers of floral bouquets that, unknown to the store, the "autumn berries" in each bouquet were plain sprigs of poison...
Last week at Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in a flooded drydock. In a year she would be ready for action. The Forrestal's cost, with planes: more than a third of a billion dollars (about $372 million). The Navy has three more supercarriers on order, plans another in the upcoming budget, hopes eventually...
Gregorio takes the wheel and Hemingway lets himself down to the deck and sits down. His voice has an ordinary sound, but high-pitched for the big frame that produces it. For all his years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place...
...attention to his guest. "Take him softly now," he croons. "Easy. Easy. Work him with style. That's it, up slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish at last flops onto the deck, Hemingway continues his reflections. "The right way to do it-style-is not just an idle concept," he says. "It is simply the way to get done what is supposed to be done. The fact that the right way also looks beautiful when it's done is just incidental...
Mamie Fidgeted. The new plane, 19 ft. 9 in. longer than the Columbine II, is decorated in various shades of green, and comfortably but not luxuriously furnished. The major improvement is a radio-Teletype room just behind the flight deck, complete with a complicated National Security Agency decoding machine. Ike, who could only receive brief voice messages in the old Columbine, can now receive Teletype messages of any length during flight, including top-secret material. Another important improvement is a more efficient cabin pressurization system, to relieve the strain on Mamie's heart, slightly damaged by rheumatic fever...