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When a "big one" is scheduled for a night test, a honking sound beats for a few minutes over the still desert to warn the unwary. Then privileged watchers inside the fence feel the ground tremble under their feet, see a long, white, incredibly brilliant flame jut horizontally out of the hillside. The show lasts for about one minute and shuts off abruptly. There is no fuss, no dramatic countdown, seldom any delay...
Sculptor Henry Moore sits in an aged wicker chair on a crumpled cushion. He is small and compact (5 ft. 7 in., 154 Ibs.), with a high-domed face that is benign yet cragged. Thinning strands of greying hair stretch errantly across his head. From beneath brows that jut at least an inch beyond pale blue eyes, he stares intensely at a small plaster shape held in his left hand. The right hand, thick-wristed and broad, with straight fingers that are surgically muscular, holds a small scalpel. In a few minutes, the chunk of thumb-shaped plaster takes...
Rickenbacker's move, made "to devote a major share of time and energies to basic policy matters,'' marks a milestone in U.S. aviation. After his World War I service as the U.S.'s "ace of aces" (26 German aircraft), genial, jut-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker plumped hard throughout the discouraging '20s for U.S. recognition of the importance of airpower. He joined Eastern in 1934 when it was a subsidiary of General Motors, raised $3,500,000 in 1938 to reorganize the company as an independent. Under his tightfisted, no-nonsense management, Eastern has never...
Taking a routine item over the phone about a Masonic lodge meeting in Louisburg, Kans. (pop. 677). a Kansas City Starman perked up slightly when told that a jut-chinned visitor named Harry S. Truman had been present. "You know,'' said the caller, thoughtfully clarifying his report, ''he is the former Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Missouri...
Some of the hulks dredged up by U.N. salvagers and dumped in the shallows still jut from corners of Port Said harbor; a few weatherworn propaganda posters still flap from the city's walls, and the scarred stump of the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, torn down by mobs celebrating the departure of the last Anglo-French invaders, still stands at the canal entrance. Vastly more in evidence, as Egyptians prepared to celebrate the second anniversary of Nasser's Suez "victory," were the 385 ships that his Suez Canal Authority shuttled through the canal last week...