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...plane had barely cleared San Juan Bay when the right engine, pounding for altitude, sputtered and conked out. There was no chance to get back to the field; Pilot Cockrill made the best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: One-Way Ticket | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Aux Barricades! | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Sunny Florida? Moonlit nights? You name it and Cambridge hasn't got it. According to an impartial survey taken last night at Harry's Arcade Spa and George's, the only thing departing students will miss are the pinball machines. Several states ban them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation Exodus Produces Ghost Town in Cambridge | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Cornell was a tough oarsmen battle last week, but predictions on tomorrow's struggle with Navy and Pennsylvania's crews seem to relegate the Crimson's previous defeat to the realm of canoeing on a moonlit lake...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Underdog Eight Rows Navy, Penn Tomorrow | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...broad, awed survey of how U.S. movies are produced, distributed and exhibited. Coming: Film Actors (M-G-M), which will prove that, underneath, the boys & girls are really just hardworking, clean-living kids; The Art Director (20th Century-Fox), which will debunk such box-office attractions as earthquakes and moonlit water by disclosing trade tricks of process photography and set construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deglamorization | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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