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...ramp"), and a crew chief to stack the dishes. When a cadet is ready to leave, he says: "New Cadet Blank reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold" him or demand: "What are you, Mister?" (to which the cadet must say: "Sir, I am an F-94C"), or he can let him go: "You are clear to roll...
...double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position and give your next checkpoint." Or he may order a cadet: "Stand tall, reach for the sky and look proud; you're an air cadet, Mister." But the competitive spirit of the new academy is probably best portrayed by the answer to "What is your altitude, Mister?" To this the cadet must say: "Five thousand, two hundred and eighty feet, sir, and far, far above that of West Point or Annapolis...
...downtown Memphis, a dingy, narrow street bears a significant (to Memphians) name: November 6th Street. It commemorates the day in 1934 when Memphis, urged on by its utility-baiting political boss, the late Edward H. ("Mister") Crump, voted against private power and for the Tennessee Valley Authority power system (it was the first major city to enter TVA). Most Memphians have remained passionately loyal to TVA; they were outraged when the Eisenhower Administration, under the Dixon-Yates contract (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.) decided to bypass TVA in constructing a $107 million power installation in the Memphis area...
...William Christopher Handy, a young bandleader from Florence, Ala., first arrived on Beale Street. Ten years later, Handy and his band were hired to play at political rallies for a young candidate for mayor. As an innovation, Handy wrote a syncopated campaign song, Mister Crump (don't 'low no easy riders here), which became a local sensation. Later, more lyrics were added, the title was changed to Memphis Blues, and the song became an international hit. Before he left Memphis for New York City in 1917, Handy wrote Beale Street Blues, which immortalized the street...
...address for Latin American Presidents, is banned by law in democratic Uruguay; "Mr. President" is thought to be title enough. Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres, the next President of Uruguay's Swiss-style National Council and therefore the country's top man, is definitely the mister type. During an earlier presidential term, explaining that "it's ridiculous for me to have guards," he modestly removed policemen from duty at his little farm just outside Montevideo. The disconcerting result was not an assassination attempt but the theft of 50 chickens...