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...whine of the plane came closer, but visibility was too poor to let the crowd see it. Keeping his ship up in the flare-out, Pilot Howard was easing down toward the runway just over Farmer Joseph Philp's sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon...
...angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have been accused of not representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane Sir Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched off in him a flare of personal contempt for the Egyptian-not the contempt of a loftily bred Yorkshire gentleman for an upstart "wog," but the contempt of an order-loving, word-keeping diplomat for a disorderly, dishonorable dictator...
...Republican National Convention, orators usually called the opposition the "Democrat" Party. Last week the G.O.P. National Committee explained that the shortened adjective will be official Republican campaign usage because the "party of the Pender-gasts or Tammany Hall" cannot be considered a democratic party. After a brief flare-up by Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler ("They have no right to change our name"), Democrats cracked that they could not think of any name worse than Republican. At his news conference President Eisenhower treated the subject with all the gravity it deserved. Laughed Ike: "If they want to be known...
...that point, however, Hammarskjold, the usually quiet Swede, felt impelled to make a loud protest. He announced that he would demand that the Jordan government "punish the transgressors" who killed four Israeli bus passengers a few nights earlier. He had no sooner fired off his warning shot than another flare-up occurred on Israel's touchier border with Egypt...
Other parts of the diary record episodes in the war, seen as if by the brief, brilliant light of a phosphorous flare. A comrade dies before an SS firing squad; the Germans try to drive Hypnos' detachment out of hiding by burning a forest; and, in a two-line episode, there is the soldier who, "between the two shots that decided his fate, had time to call a fly 'Madam...