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...identifiable, as were the U.S. manufacturers' labels on cameras and electronic gear. Along with the varied supply of foreign money that Khrushchev had reported in the captured pilot's possession, the Soviets also laid out a pistol, a tube of morphine, a flashlight, a half-pack of Kent cigarettes, a Social Security card (No. 230-30-0321), a couple of pocketknives. Powers' suicide needle, they said, had been tested on a dog, and the animal had died in 30 seconds...
...city dwellers, the drowsy county of Kent means perfect peace and perfect quiet, dozing to the murmuring of bees, the lowing of cattle, the gentle purl of streams like the Beult, the Great Stour and the Little Stour. But in the Kentish village of Molash, 8½ miles from Canterbury, grey-haired Hilda Hyams, 54, was being driven mad by another sound: a low-pitched, persistent hum. Her novelist husband, Edward, could not hear the hum, but he dutifully checked the water pipes and main, arranged to have the electrical wires near the house slackened, even cut off the telephone...
...Jack Kent Cooke, 47, is a lively Toronto wheeler-dealer who owns or controls the Maple Leaf baseball club, radio station CKEY, two magazines and a handful of manufacturing firms. Now he is about to switch his citizenship from Canadian to U.S., and he has high-placed encouragement. Before the Senate last week was a House-approved bill, sponsored by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter, that would grant Cooke residence retroactive to Sept. 28, 1950. Significance: Cooke could then become a U.S. citizen in 60 days instead of the normal five years...
...biggest seaport and the Sun the most famous paper in the U.S. Baltimore never made it, but long after Abell's death in 1888, it seemed for a while that the Sun might actually achieve his dream: in the halcyon days of Henry Louis Mencken and Frank R. Kent, for years the dean of U.S. political columnists, the name of the Sun was second to none...
...Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game...