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...Dew still drenched the alfalfa just off the east-west runway at Lancaster (Pa.) Municipal Airport at 5:30 one morning last week when the rangy truck driver from Porterville, Calif, set to work. Wearing only a pair of white toreador pants and a pair of suede chukka boots, Dan Lamore, 31, was gaudy enough. But his bow was the real eye stopper: a 54-in. monster made of fiber glass and maple, which required a force of 250 Ibs. to be shot at full power...
...three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts for DEW line bases, airfields and weather stations, while skippers checked anxiously for the latest ice reports from the straits to the north...
...Morning dew and cobwebs in the rigging indicate a southwest wind during the day. Nine times out of ten, if you see porpoises there will be an easterly. I don't know why. but I've seen it happen time after time...
Hang or Dance. White's Mexico Ledger has a first-class reputation in Missouri, a motto ("Covering the news like dew covers Little Dixie'') and a strong Democratic policy. At the Herald Tribune, Bob White will be taking over one of the nation's oldest, staunchest Republican newspapers. When White first talked to Whitney, he pointed out that he was a Democrat, was keenly interested in whether Republican Whitney wanted to turn the Herald Tribune into a better newspaper or merely into a G.O.P. mouthpiece. Whitney's answer was firm: he wanted a good newspaper...
Individually and together, they have entered defensive alliances with Washington: Canada and Great Britain are members of NATO, Australia and New Zealand have joined the U.S. in ANZUS (excluding Britain) and SEATO. Canada and the U.S. made common cause in building the radar DEW line to prevent surprise attacks by Soviet planes coming from the North Pole...