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...taken one night by a native to a man who had fallen out of the sky. The fallen: Lieut. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. Birch led Doolittle and a group of the survivors of the Tokyo raid to safety, then joined the unit that later became General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and began a remarkable career in air combat intelligence. Wrote Chennault later: "Birch was the pioneer of our field-intelligence...
...Crimson's top finisher was Mark who stayed with the amazing through the first two miles and faded to a disappointing eleventh. Ed Hamlin was the big capturing fourteenth place in the field. Jed Fitzgerald, third for the finished 26th, while Greg was 31st and Fred Howard...
...mention it, was Sweden. Actually, France has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world; the U.S. is second; Chile, third; Sweden, fourth. Japan and Austria have the highest suicide rate of all nations (23.9 per 100,000 pop.); Sweden is sixth on the list (19.9), the U.S. fourteenth (9.8). *By way of explanation, Jack Kennedy repeated his now-notable U-2 "apologize" statement for the May 23 Congressional Record: "My response was: 'Mr. Khrushchev . . . said there were two conditions for continuing [the summit conference]. One, that we apologize. I think that that might have been possible...
...back, then followed the cases for five years more. In that quarter-century, the women averaged 64 illnesses, with 313 days lost from work, v. the men's 37 illnesses and 124 days lost. Menstrual disturbances could not explain this huge difference; they accounted for less than one-fourteenth of female illness. In fact, the same types of illness-respiratory infections, stomach upsets, muscle pains and skin conditions -explained most of the absenteeism of both sexes. Surprisingly, sheltered operators went to the doctor more often for cuts and bruises than did linemen...
...Fourteenth of July probably demonstrated more clearly than anything how hollow grandeur really is. It might have been the biggest ever, but the consensus in the press the morning after was that is had been the biggest flop. The only thing the festivities lacked was spontaneity. On the domestic front, the regime was looking for a vote of confidence; all it got was a public ready and willing to have a politically neutral good time. On the international front, in a scene reminiscent of Moscow May Days, the French paraded through the Concorde all their newest and finest military equipment...