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...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...
...with all insignia of rank carefully removed. At Lumumba's official residence, Ghanaian troops put the Premier under heavy guard. Next day, Mobutu's men raided Lumumba's headquarters, arrested 26 staff members plus a stray Senator, drove them off and locked them up in a hangar at an old airport outside town...
Died. Mary Hall ("Mother") Tusch, 82, friend and mother-away-from-home to two generations of aviators, whose frame cottage opposite the air-training school on the University of California's Berkeley campus was known as "The Hangar" by thousands of visiting airmen, including Hap Arnold (who dubbed it "the first U.S.O."), Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker from 1915 until 1950; of a stroke; in Washington...
...only a showbiz expert like Club Manager Klauzar would have the daring to go shopping for Stateside acts like the De Castro Sisters, Sammy Davis Jr. or Ray Anthony's band to provide a floor show for the tired airman who has spent a hard day in the hangar or office...
There had been times when Culture-master Malraux came dangerously close to satire in describing the accomplishments of France-"the most powerful lighthouse in the world, the largest hangar for airplanes, the most modern goods station, the highest road over a dam . . ." And sometimes it was hard to talk about grandeur in the most skeptical and free-thinking nation in the world. The moment he became official, Malraux lost some caste among all those passionate or cynical Left Bank defenders of the right-and the duty-of Art to be anti-official...