Word: midafternoon
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...Skylark radioed the submarine base at New London, Conn., reported that the submarine had been out of touch for an hour and 47 minutes. Even this created no desperate alarm. Perhaps Harvey, his communications out, was simply riding out heavy surface seas in the tranquil depths. But by midafternoon, with Thresher silent for six hours, Navy patrol planes began circling the area. At 3:35 a hot line buzzed in the Pentagon office of Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. He learned for the first time that Thresher had disappeared. Within half an hour President Kennedy...
...midafternoon in Ulus Square, in the heart of Ankara, shoppers, office workers and bystanders jammed the streets. At the railroad station near by, a retired Turkish air force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds...
...rotating dairy crew milks the school's 70 cows, meets the other boarders at 7:30 breakfast. After tidying their rooms, the youngsters attend chapel, join the day students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those...
...midafternoon, the carpets had not been tacked, some of the seats were not bolted down, the stair railings were still being sanded. Six hours later, after some 800 hired limousines had converged on the area, braying their way through the clogged streets. New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein mounted the podium, bowed to the audience and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, and set the hall ablaze with sound. There would be better nights of music at Philharmonic Hall-the opening night's program was more an acoustical than an artistic success-but there would be no nights more glittering...
...call came at midafternoon from Roger M. Blough, board chairman of the U.S. Steel Corp., in New York City. Said he to a White House secretary: "I would like to see the President on a very important matter concerning steel." Could an appointment be arranged for later that...