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...electric clocks broke down, the local repairman turned down Brown's call for help. "We'd be glad to come out.'' he explained. "But those kids out there can fix them." The students now maintain all the school's equipment, have in stalled an intercom system and a special burglar alarm in the boys' washroom to keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than any of their projects is the enthusiasm the program has aroused. The students have requested so many scientific books from the University of Florida library that...
Lazy as a cloud, the black-hulled, three-masted schooner Creole loafed along the coast of Spain last week. To gay music on the intercom, the 190-ft. Creole, world's biggest privately owned sailing vessel, stole past silver-sanded coves and pastel villages. On sunny afternoons, while the schooner lay at anchor, passengers dipped in the warm water or sipped in cafes ashore. After dark, white-gloved stewards moved unobtrusively among the guests in a softly lighted dining room hung with French impressionist paintings. Pushed by gentle winds, the Creole headed at week...
...Holguin began figuring feverishly, then announced the results over the intercom. The bomb would have landed, quite literally, within a stone's throw of the target. This was better than close enough, since, with the H-bombs SAC planes will carry in combat, a three-mile near-miss would be a kill...
...minute Spokane bomb run began, the wind was at a steady 50 knots. Then, just before the bomb release, it shifted to the northeast and subsided to seven knots. The City of Merced intercom was filled with curses ("We all loused up our halos," said Pilot Speiser later). The hypothetical 1,000-lb. bomb landed less than half a mile from the target-a bad mission in SAC's strict accuracy book. But since the City of Merced had made better runs at Spokane on the two previous lights, the inferior third try, under the "best...
...surprising joviality" that was the desert war. When the R.A.F. bombed a port in Tunisia, Johnston went along. And so "the BBC made its first triumphal recording of a member of a bomber crew in actual flight over a target . . . Clear as a bell it came over the intercom: 'Here come the obscenity obscenities,' " meaning German fighters...