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...ground, a crew of technicians is just as busy. Before each landing, one man is at runway's edge, peering through the mist to count all he can see of a curving line of carefully placed black panels. Another sets up a stepladder at runway's end, climbs to the top (where he is almost as high as if he were in the cockpit of a landing plane) and counts the runway lights and markers that gleam through the weather. What each man sees is one more measure of visibility on the field. Automatic instruments keep a continuous...
Curtain thy heavens, thou Jove, with clouds and mist...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...emphasize the occult, the stories are dressed in all the horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares...
...Aintree, an Irish gelding named Early Mist, knocked out of the race last year by a fall at the first jump, managed to clear all 30 barriers, win the 1953 Grand National by 20 lengths. ¶In London, in rowing's most rugged (4½ mi.) race, the Cambridge crew, with a Cambridge, Mass, oarsman named Louis McCagg pulling a sturdy No. 6 oar, upset Oxford by eight lengths. ¶In Columbus, Yale's well-balanced swimming team, piling up points in all but two of the 14 events, defeated Ohio State's defending champions...