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...came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout on Akagi. Within minutes the dive bombers scored a fabulous nine hits and mortally wounded three of the Japanese carriers. Within hours, Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were on the bottom...
...Admiral Spruance on Enterprise sent off 24 dive bombers to get Hiryu. "Enemy dive bombers directly overhead" was about all Hiryu's lookout had time to report before Hiryu, swerving in an attempted evasion, was smothered by four direct hits. And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan. "The game was up," a Japanese yeoman recalled. "The members of the staff looked at one another, their mouths tight shut. Indescribable emptiness...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...just out of college starts at a good salary (currently from $432 to $500 a month), raises are sometimes slow in coming. "Your own company can never understand why you're worth much more two years after being hired," said a 34-year-old electronics engineer on the lookout for a new job, "whereas another company figures that they're getting real experience." Said a Curtiss-Wright engineer: "The general opinion is that if you want more money-change jobs...
...campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...