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...logistical exercise, Big Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
...passing the family cold sloppily among them" and a mother-in-law "with a voice like a trench mortar," Bert feels his boredom growing "wantonly, insanely; every week it flung another wet arm around him." As boredom grows, faith recedes, and guilt closes in on Bert like a summer fog. He sits before his typewriter starting sentences he never finishes ("Where pagans go wrong is that . . ."; "Christmas, as Chesterton once put it . . ."). The rejection slips pile up. Whenever Bert tries to explain his trial of faith to family and friends, they go into "hiding somewhere behind tight, patient smiles." Sobbing...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...dank, filthy, crowded (on the Negro side, fourteen and sixteen people in cells made for four) Albany jail, the struggle to stay merely human had obscured the social battle. Once free, a sense of the complete futility of our suffering settled down upon us like a heavy, enervating fog...
Antitank Guns. Moving onto Georges Bank off Cape Cod and the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, proliferating Russian trawlers snag American nets, ram smaller boats in the fog and often force fishermen right off the banks; in Alaska, fishermen recently became so furious about Russian trawlers pulling their crab pots that they began ordering antitank guns to mount on their decks, were dissuaded only by a flying visit from Alaska Governor William...