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Last week the head resident of a Radcliffe dormitory tore open a plain envelope, addressed simply to "Bertram Hall." There was no explanatory letter inside, only a half dozen business cards labelled "Male Escort Bureau... escorts for all legitimate occasions." The card promised "confidential service" for a minimum...
...Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after...
...slightly battered beagle. Sure enough, it was the Johnson dog. The good word, couriered to the head of the family at a Democratic Steering Committee session, raised relieved senatorial cheers all around. Recovering after cortisone treatment for shock, and eased by phenylbutazone tablets. Little Beagle Johnson returned home under escort of Lucy Baines and a fifth L.B.J.-Lynda Bird Johnson...
...insult, the University requires each voyaging scholar to be acompanied by a (male) proctor, and every time Nature calls one of the weaker sex, she emerges from the giant portals of New Lecture Hall with an escort...
...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME...