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...minute area for manipulation among thousands of miles of wire and innumerable relay points. For 75 minutes, while White piloted the plane, Cotton crawled back and forth between Cecil's innards and the cockpit, where he could get guidance from the ground. He was armed with the flashlight, screw driver and pliers that he always carries with him when flying. Finally he thought he had located the right relay switch. Taking a dime-store binder clip that he uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp's wire handles, stripped...
Elsewhere on campus, one victim was hit on the head with a pillow labeled "2,000-lb. safe"; others have run into rubber bands stretched to simulate high-voltage wires, been cut down by lasers (flashlight beams), incinerated by flamethrowers (pressurized shaving-cream containers), drilled with water guns. Some of the more adventuresome kills...
...London's Mayfair, office workers stumbled around in inky, icy blackness. At the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, diplomats read their documents by candlelight. Scotland Yard sped emergency flashlight details out to direct traffic at major intersections. Throughout great areas of southern England and the Midlands the blackout spread. Sections of Birmingham sputtered and went out, as did Maidenhead, downtown Derby and scores of other places...
...flashlight stabbed into the blackness of New Orleans' George Washington School, picking out the hudd'ed figures, mostly Negroes, who were standing, sitting, or sleeping on the hallway floor. Occasionally he would aim the light at his own face, so that the people would recognize him. Some didn't believe their eyes. "That's not the President," whispered one voice. "He wouldn't come down here...
Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...