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...White House on March fourth next, he will assume his now duties with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...
...blanket of soupy fog swept suddenly in over San Diego one evening last week, swallowed a group of 14 Navy planes soaring over the city. Twelve of the planes, Boeing fighters, were up from North Island Naval Air Station. Two, Vought Corsairs, were from U. S. S. Detroit. None was radio-equipped. Few of the pilots were specially trained for enforced blind flight...
...came down. Some found North Island; others reached Lindbergh Field across the bay; some landed on Army's Rockwell Field. One was demolished, one burned, several nosed over. No pilot was hurt. Meanwhile the two Corsairs continued to mill about in the peasoup. The only nearby field not fog-shrouded, an unused port near Camp Kearny, was hastily floodlit by the headlights of hundreds of volunteer motorists, but the Corsair pilots could not know about that...
...long experiment are a localizing runway beacon and a radio "landing beam" down which the pilot may "slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots do land by instrument at Newark in fog so thick that on the ground, with no radio functioning, they must taxi their planes by compass...
...East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...