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...Ellenton, soft-spoken Mike Cassels, whose general store is the hub of social life in the community, closed his store one night last week, walked across the railroad tracks to the house he has lived in for 58 years. There he mused, "Makes you kind of jittery. It's kind of hard to think . . . We've got to decide where to go ... It's like having a death in the family, going to the funeral, then returning home and realizing the emptiness of the house...
...their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under 30 jet-driven minutes from Siberian fighter outposts, last week found herself 500 miles...
Bostonians will also get a chance to vote yes or no on a 48 hour, five day week for policemen and firemen-- a strictly local question involving only the Hub and Malden. All the state's cities but 49 will also vote on continuance of local rent control through next June. Unless Congress acts, local rules expire at the end of this year except in towns that have already provided for extending them...
Interdiction Fire. The "roof" of the Allied beachhead-the line from the northwest corner to the east coast-had not caved in, but it was sagging. The loss of territory (see map) was disturbing enough; more so was the threat to Kyongju, communications hub of the northeast corner. The enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull...
...plane and all in it assumed a wild new relationship. The propeller of the right inboard engine burst from its hub, tore through the upper fuselage with a thunderous bang. The lights went out. The passengers, half deafened as the air rushed from the cabin, were assailed by a sub-zero gale which flung back hot oil and clattering chunks of metal. The wounded, overspeeded engine howled and shook off its mount. The right wing dipped suddenly...