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Stultz's last words got cut off, and in the American cockpit the crew froze. "We thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...candles flared. It seemed the blood froze...
Margot Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...fact that drugs can usually restore even children with severe leukemia to a normal-appearing blood pattern for a while, a Harvard University research team at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital tried yet another approach. They took bone marrow from the patients during such remissions, deep-froze it until all drugs had ceased to work, then gave the children 600 r. of X rays and a prompt reinjection of their own marrow. In the New England Journal of Medicine the doctors report that one case was a clear failure; the second child died, but with no signs of leukemia...
Salt Pork & Sundown. The western hero, as worshiped in 1959, is derived from a type that was extant for only a brief moment of history-between 1865, when the Civil War ended, and 1886-87. when 80% of the cattle in the West froze to death in two savage winters. "There's no law west of Kansas City," the saying went, "and west of Fort Scott, no God." The Sioux and the Apache were making their last stands. The first big gold and silver strikes were made in Colorado and Nevada, and the no-good and the adventurous went...