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...London to the Bahamas for a vacation, Krupp was plunked down by surprise in the U.S. when his plane developed engine trouble. To ease its passengers' eight-hour delay, British Overseas Airways Corp. arranged a Manhattan sightseeing tour, dragged visaless Krupp along despite his spirited protests. After a gander at the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, the TIME & LIFE Building and Wall Street, reluctant Sightseer Krupp winged on to the Bahamas...
That night, Micah drops in on a traveling tent show to sneer at the worshipers of the pagan gods, Astarte and Baal. But one gander at luscious Lana Turner, High Priestess of Astarte, and Micah is aquiver...
Some 300,000 transatlantic air travelers put in each year at Newfoundland's big Gander Airport, and few can ever forget the soul-sinking impression of bleakness that hangs over the place like a built-in fog. The ramshackle Gander terminal, jerry-built from wartime barracks and hangars, ranks as one of the gloomiest and most primitive stations on all the world's airways. Last week Canada announced that Gander will get a long-overdue facelifting. A new $2,000,000 terminal will be built this summer, with restaurants, shops, a movie theater and comfortable waiting rooms...
Sauce for the Gander. In Chicago, Vito Piovosi, seeking an injunction to keep wife Helen from molesting him, testified that when he cooked a roast loin of pork for Sunday dinner, she: 1) shouted, "What, no applesauce?" 2) threw roast and platter at him, 3) picked up the platter and broke it over his head, knocking him unconscious, 4) poured hot gravy over him as he lay on the floor, 5) stalked out of the house and never returned...
...recognition does not imply approval, but merely acceptance in international relations of an effective and apparently stable rule over a particular territory. It would be well for Britain to be consist ent in its realism, for what is sauce for the Peking goose is sauce also for the Formosan gander...