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Last week, as the ninth troopship nosed into the harbor, Seattle's outraged matrons had their way. The band was still there and free steak dinners for the boys, but no cancans, no hulas, no cheesecake.
A few minutes before the 6:40 New York train was due, the President's limousine, followed by a car loaded with Secret Service men, nosed into Washington's high-vaulted Union Station. Iron gates leading to the platform were slammed shut; passengers for 7 o'clock...
Early Handicap. But the Skyrocket had started its career with a handicap. Unlike the X-1, it was designed to take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped...
Renaissance. In the 50 years since a hurricane all but knocked Galveston off the map (5,000 people were killed, thousands maimed), the town had staged a remarkable comeback. It is not only the chief port for Texas cotton and Texas sulphur but-by virtue of its beaches and its...
Papagos, at 68, is Greece's No. 1 military hero (he beat the Italians in 1940), an ardent royalist and disciplinarian. But for the past six months the hawk-nosed commander's loyalty to King Paul has tangled with his belief in military discipline. Trouble started over a...