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...eight months, Mississippi's gnome-like Theodore Bilbo had been waiting for the day he would descend on Washington and reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate. Part of the time he spent dawdling around his echoing 27-room Dream House at Poplarville, Miss. Part of his exile was spent in New Orleans "getting my mouth reamed out." He had cancer of the mouth and he underwent a series of delicate operations...
...more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...
...casual shoppers in the Coop this summer, all seems quiet and cool, but few realize that frantic, behind the scenes preparations are in progress to handle the hoard of students expected to descend upon the Square in September...
...between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...