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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 3--The Navy's mighty Vanguard rocket was reportedly ready tonight for a predawn shot that may hurl the first American "moon" into space...
...spirit of levity had moved one gang of youths to hoist an usher above its shoulders and hurl him down a flight of stairs. The crowd roared and the City's Pride convened for action. The show went on, oblivious and even louder...
...order at Bataan or in France; they did not disobey orders at Pearl Harbor or Valley Forge . . ." Airman Wheeler was convicted. His civilian defense attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Murray Sprung, sprang to his feet, pleaded for leniency: "Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat/ Or hurl the cynic's ban?/ Let me live in my house by the side of the road/ And be a friend to man." Appealed Attorney Sprung, his voice hoarse with emotion: "Gentlemen, be a friend to Airman Wheeler...
...wreckage for a moment." "My pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss, but I cannot saturate and spoil it with fifty thousand . . . Beware. When all the love has gone out of me, I am remorseless; I hurl the truth about like destroying lightning." Upshot: Alice Lockett married a physician...
...having "resorted to methods of intrigue and formed a collusion against the Central Committee"; i.e.,. they had opposed Boss Nikita, possibly attempted to ease him out of the key job of First Party Secretary. But Khrushchev had won out and, as is the Communist custom, was privileged to hurl the whole book of party crimes at the losers. As is also Communist custom, the ink was hardly dry on Nikita's indictment before the party pack was snapping at the losers' heels. Biggest bark came from the army newspaper Red Star, which denounced Malenkov & Co. for "treacherous...