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...Robbed. Near La Grange, Ky., after finding $200 in cash and other belongings missing when they returned to their padlocked locker room following a game with the Kentucky State Reformatory baseball team, the visiting Fort Knox nine was told by Deputy Warden Porter Lady, "A lock doesn't mean much to some of our boys...
Over the California mountains, Lock heed test pilots had purposely flown test Electras into turbulent air at high speeds. Apparently because the planes' struts had not been weakened, nothing happened. But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began. The company had its answer. During all of this testing time, the Federal Aviation Agency had allowed airlines to fly Electras so long as their speed was held to a conservative 329 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet, thus removing...
...lock yourself in the bathroom," cautioned a third. "That's the worst place...
Moving up the Welland, the British freighter La Selva bounced off a highway drawbridge, knocking it eight inches out of line. Three other ships missed lock approaches and ran aground. At the head of the lakes the Norwegian freighter Dagfred won the race to pick up the season's first grain cargo-and slammed its bow into a Port Arthur grain elevator. As one British tanker skipper said wryly: "The season has opened with a bang...
...thing I ever did, resigning from the Air Force," says Quesada, "but the law [requiring a civilian head] was clear as hell." The law, by implication, also called for a strong, experienced administrator, and Quesada's whole life and personality fit the law like a made-to-order lock...