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With a roar, the tornado hit. It blew the house down, yanked Beebe out of the basement, 30 feet in the air, and carried him 200 yards due east. Wright was borne 40 feet aloft with "a lot of timber" which battered and scratched him. He landed some 300 yards away in a wild plum thicket. After the storm had passed, bewildered cattle stood bellowing, boards and sticks driven into their sides. Only the concrete jail remained intact. In the town's crumpled ruins, Wright and Beebe and other survivors found 16 dead and dying...
Hope of Salvation? The U.S. airlines had gone through their own postwar hell. Some of the burning was due to their own sins. They had sometimes seemed to run their lines, not like globe-straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they appeared at the airport; they had lost their luggage; when bad weather closed in, they had set passengers down in out-of-the-way airports and left them to shift for themselves. The winter weather had been terrible. In one grim period in December, so had the plane crashes. Many...
Bottom of the Ladder. That Patterson became an airman was due largely to chance. But he came honestly by his liking for hard work. He was born on Oahu Island, where his father was overseer of a sugar plantation. A tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When...
Singled out in the faculty report on General Education as due for some changes, the present advisory system has remained largely undisturbed by both the General Education Committee and its untutored advisees. Particularly in the social sciences, the advisor is not an indispensable man. Students seeking his wisdom have all too frequently found their questions better answered by table-talk acquaintances. This does not imply that some advisors have not helped their charges, for many have; nonetheless, the advisor-student relationship suffers from many inadequacies. Lack of confidence is enhanced by the advisor's frank inability to help the student...
...Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...