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...more than 14 flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where he decided as a kid to become a pilot, "and you can't stand still...
...murmur of the civic protest reached the columns of the Exponent or the Telegram. But in Fairmont, 25 miles away, the evening West Virginian ran full accounts and, as an experiment, sent 2,000 copies into Clarksburg the day after the Non-Partisan Association was formed. Said a West Virginian executive: "We sold out between 12:30 and 2 p.m. When the people of Clarksburg saw our papers on the street, they actually hugged the carrier boys." On the day of the mass meeting, Clarksburg businessmen bought 2,000 of the Fairmont papers, gave them away free. Since then...
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Last week about 500 California Democrats swarmed into San Francisco's Hotel Fairmont on Nob Hill for a $100-a-plate dinner. They got their money's worth: the featured speaker of the evening, Pennsylvania's bright young (37) Governor George Leader, gave the Californians just the sort of fighting talk that they wanted to hear and helped make the affair a boisterous success...
...string ensemble strummed Happy Days Are Here Again and, for a while, it almost seemed as though the Democrats had never fallen upon unhappy days. In the hotel lobby party workers raffled off a mink coat, while in the Fairmont's Cirque Room, Democrats clustered admiringly around James Heavey, a 30-year-old draftsman who won a place in the Democratic hagiology when he had a brush with Secret Service men last year after heckling Vice President Richard Nixon at a San Mateo rally...