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Death haunted the skies of Japan last week. Near towering Mount Fuji, a British Overseas Airways' Boeing 707 fell from the sky, killing all 124 persons on board. Only the day before, a Canadian Pacific DC-8 crashed while landing in heavy fog at Tokyo Airport, killing the ten-member crew and all but eight of the 62 passengers. This total of 188 in less than 24 hours made it, as far as anyone could remember, the darkest single day in the history of commercial aviation...
Ironically, the doomed 707 had just taxied out for its takeoff past the wreckage of Canadian Pacific's Hong Kong-to-Tokyo flight. On the night before, it circled fog-closed Tokyo International for nearly an hour, hoping for a break in the overcast. Finally, its pilot gave up and informed the control tower and his passengers that he was making for Taiwan, 1,300 miles to the southwest. At that moment, the visibility momentarily increased to five-eighths of a mile at the airport, just above the minimum safety standard, and the pilot elected to land instead...
...build steel-ribbed parabolic dishes and ungainly rows of spindly antenna arrays. They even lined a small valley with wire mesh and began to scan the skies for radio sources. These pioneer radio astronomers scanning the sky "saw" only blotchy, vague shapes-like street lights dimly seen through the fog...
...orders with diligence, but did not even permit himself-much less his own subordinates-to question their morality. The infamous Nacht und Nebel order of 1941, under which Resistance suspects from France to Rumania were hauled to their deaths in German concentration camps under cover of "night and fog," met with Keitel's most self-righteous concurrence. It-was the only way to combat "a kind of warfare launched by gangsters, spies and other skulking vermin." When Hitler suspended military laws against looting and pillage by German troops in Russia, Keitel's only objection was the fear that...
Over half of the Harvard and Kleist collections are from England, where the book-jacket first emerged from its lowly dust-wrapper status. Originally used by London booksellers to keep their wares free from fog and grime, the book-jacket underwent a crucial metamorphosis when Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark came out in 1876. Snark's humble grey wrapper shouted critical praise for the two Alice books. As the first known jacket to carry advertisements, it was the ancestor of the modern commercial jacket. The English publisher who pioneered designs for fiction jackets was T. Fisher Unwin...