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...wings drooping, rolled into its parking area, and the pilot cut its whining engines. When the crew climbed out, the base commander was on hand to greet them, but only to commiserate. An incomplete mission is a sad affair with the new Air Force. The pilot had executed the neatest feat of the day-a perfect instrument landing, but this meant only that the crew would have to go back up next day to complete the training it had missed...
...Have You Seen Him?" In Seoul, 40 miles to the south, some 8,000 Koreans were swarming into a bullet-pocked suburban station to greet the first Korean P.W.s, who were coming by rail...
...Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee's press party in Washington last week, newsmen were astonished to see Joe McCarthy approach his erstwhile adversary, John Foster Dulles, and greet him with a warm smile and an affectionate bear hug. What they overheard surprised the eavesdroppers even more. "Foster," said Joe, "you've been a pretty good boy over the past six months...
...cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into a campus trash can. "But some day," remarked one of them as he was led away, "I'm going to have to take the course...
...phone pretty busy with imperious voices demanding different Sears departments. So busy, in fact, that the occupants had just about taken to answering with, "This is not Sears Roebuck, you have the wrong number." Happily, however, they decided on a different tack and in official voices began to greet callers with "Sears Roebuck, good morning." Above the phone they pasted a list of different Sears departments through which to shuttle the unsuspecting caller...