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...female voice sounds out of place in the cramped cockpit of a high-flying B58 bomber: "Oxygen quantity low. Oxygen quantity low. Descend to safe altitude.Monitor oxygen system until descent is accomplished...
...into the anniversary with another of those speeches bragging about how cleverly he had concealed his Communism in the early days. "If, while we were in the Sierra Maestra, we had said, 'We are Marxist-Leninists,' it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the lowlands." But among the other nations of the hemisphere, Castro's third anniversary was a reminder of a decision to be made at the Jan. 22 meeting at Punta del Este, Uruguay, on the problem of what to do about Communist-dominated Cuba...
Students are often limited to just one sandwich at a time at lunch, "because the kitchen just cannot get enough food together at one time to feed the mobs that descend after the 12 and 1 o'clock class breaks," she noted...
...plane, lashed the ocean below into scudding foam. The pilot. Captain Philip Watts, radioed Sola, reported. "I can't see a thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers...
...religion cannot illuminate these three dark areas of modern life, said Dean Miller, "it should then in decency get out of the way so that men will not be tripped up by its frumpery or fooled by its solemnity. There is serious work to be done, lest the world descend into darkness deeper than we have ever known before...