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...Gong and Grabelsky" yesterday borrowed a large balloon from a local concorn, attached a campaign message, and let it float 400 feet above Widener a little after noon. Today it will fly above Claus Gelotte's camera shop on Massachusetts...
...closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...
...During Portland, Ore.'s annual Christmas fairy tale parade the Jack & Jill float crashed into an automobile. Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after...
...places in which Bradley's Geiger counters burst into song. The average Navyman, who thought that the bomb was expected to pulverize its targets, was at first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told...
Last week the whites and Negro Attorney Martin agreed on a truce: restore the science courses to the white school, float a special bond issue to build a new $150,000 Negro school with all courses and conveniences. Superintendent T. Benton Gayle admitted: "It's terribly wasteful-even transportation is segregated, and we have two buses going down the same road. But as a taxpayer, I would rather pay higher taxes and have segregation...