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Confident of quick rescue, they gathered together their slim rations (three pieces of chocolate, a bottle of protein and calcium tablets) and salvaged clothing, holed up for several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton...
...flag in the Eastern Mediterranean, is confident of King Hussein's stability. But, just to make sure, the Pentagon ordered five Sixth Fleet transports, loaded with U.S. Marines and protected by a screen of destroyers, to remain behind for "fire-brigade duty" if the threat of war should flare again...
...White House beat, Augusta in the midst of a Jordanian crisis seemed to be the wrong place for major decisions of state. Isolated both from President Eisenhower and from familiar White House sources, they groused to one another that Ike's place during a new Middle East flare-up was in Washington, not Georgia. At the White House the President would have been available for National Security Council briefings, in closer touch with diplomatic and military aides, in a position to contribute to the give-and-take of policymaking. Countering this was an obvious accomplishment: from Augusta nothing that...
...East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing its crew. The investigation did not establish conclusively that his rack was responsible, but thereafter the device was regarded with open suspicion; no one but Ben and a co-designer felt nervy enough to fly with...
...Europe-bound tourists, worried over reports of gas rationing and of train schedules dislocated by the Suez crisis, American Express had a reassuring word. Barring any drastic new international flare-up, Western European travel conditions will be just about the same as in 1956. After checking in with the governments of 18 countries, American Express