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After lunch at Virginia House, a handsome Tudor mansion on the banks of the James River, Ike and Mamie motored through intermittent rain and hail showers to Fredericksburg, where the President placed a pungent boxwood wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state...
...Struggle. China has no food surplus to live on during this inevitable drop in farm output. Nature was kind to the Communists during Mao's first three years in power. There were bumper harvests. But last year the Chinese mainland was beset by floods, drought, pests, wind and hail. In the cities there was rationing, and in isolated areas people starved. Peasants roamed into cities-20.000 into Mukden and Anshan in one month-to get jobs and food. In Peking, guards had to drive away 5,000 peasants. Chou En-lai himself unhappily gave the lie at home...
...another school too close to shore, promptly loses a second net when its base is sucked fast into the sandy ocean floor. Still another catch has to be let go when baby sharks begin to shred a third net. In final irony, the Moona Waa Togue is almost within hail of home port with her decks piled high with pogy when a storm drives her down the coast, washes a man overboard to his death, and chops the ship up like kindling wood...
...Heavenly Mud. The country around the little town of Lovington, N. Mex. got not only torrential rains but tons of window-cracking, chicken-killing hail. Power lines were knocked out, low-lying houses were inundated; in west Texas, schools closed and highways were awash with silt-brown water. At Snyder, Texas, an earthen dam, weakened by the long, dry spell, gave way; 50 oil-well sites were flooded out. Near Hobbs, N. Mex., 100 sheep marched into a flooded ditch and drowned en masse...
Come on down." "Drag Chute Out!" The pilot, with his air tube wide open, letting a steady stream of frozen misty air blow on his face (the frozen air turned to snow and fell like soft hail inside the cabin), strained for a view of the field. The scopehead, his eyes glued to his radar, spoke for the first time at about 400 ft. above the ground. "You're just off a bit to the right," he said. Seconds later, the wheels chirped on the runway. The B-47 didn't bounce, just scraped, then the plane settled...