Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Survival. At .0615, Kittinger climbed onto a flat-bed truck and squeezed into a small gondola that was strung from a huge plastic balloon. Harnessed on his back was an elaborate instrument kit (14-channel tape recorder for voice, heartbeat and respiration rates, time blips, temperature, etc.). On his left wrist were a rear-view mirror, a small box with built-in altimeter and stopwatch, and a survival knife and scabbard. To one leg was strapped a tiny receiver-transmitter radio, and on his back were two parachutes and an alternate oxygen system...
...Miles. The sheriff and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were baffled. The crime seemed motiveless. So far as the citizens of the region knew, Clutter had no enemies. Searchers found no sign of robbery: jewelry and a wallet in plain view had been left untouched. An examining physician certified that mother and daughter had not been sexually molested...
...killers had left no clues behind. The cord and tape they used to bind and gag their victims were stock items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like a railroad station," as a neighbor put it, and the prints could have belonged to any of numerous visitors. One thing seemed certain to the Clutters' friends and neighbors: so methodical a crime could not have been committed by strangers who came upon the farm by chance. "When this...
...hangar for airplanes, the most modern goods station, the highest road over a dam . . ." And sometimes it was hard to talk about grandeur in the most skeptical and free-thinking nation in the world. The moment he became official, Malraux lost some caste among all those passionate or cynical Left Bank defenders of the right-and the duty-of Art to be anti-official...
...When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...