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Purring southward from Washington through a chill morning overcast, the presidential Constellation Columbine headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and landed. President Eisenhower and the First Lady, on their way to a six-day Thanksgiving vacation, had decided to pick up their son and his family at the Army camp where he is a battalion commander. Major John Eisenhower met the plane, but reminded his father of an old infantry tradition: a good officer eats holiday dinners with his men. He would stay until Thanksgiving afternoon, said the major. He bundled his wife Barbara, their three children and Skunky, their...
...Malay Federation government a sum of about $14 million, as a gesture of friendship to a country which, he said, was "fighting our war against Communism as well as theirs." Said a prominent citizen of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya's capital: "A ray of sunshine out of an overcast sky." Unfortunately, Omar's generous loan will not come near covering Malaya's 1954 deficit, now estimated at more than $50 million...
...seconds, the Globemaster bored upwards through the overcast, above the tiny farms and woodlots that fringe the western outskirts of Tokyo. Its destination: Korea. Then at 4:32 p.m., from 1,400 ft., the pilot flashed word that he was in trouble: "ONE ENGINE OUT-RETURNING TO FIELD FOR GCA LANDING...
...sultry air lay heavy and oppressive over central Michigan. Scudding up from the south, dark cumulus clouds reared their anvil-shaped heads into a leaden overcast. The flatlands sweltered as the temperature climbed to 90°. Aloft, cool winds raced down from the northern Rockies, rode over the blanketing heat. The black, moisture-laden thunderheads ballooned, formed a storm line which writhed eastward toward the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Suddenly, swirling like water draining from some giant bathtub, the tornadoes spun out of the clouds and swept across the land...
...break his own world decathlon record in the Olympics last week, Bob Mathias, the U.S.'s one-man track team, felt "pretty licked" after the first chilly, overcast day. He took second in the 100-meter dash, then won the shotput and the 400-meter run in his fastest time, 50.2 sec. In the high jump he placed third with a 6-ft.-2.81-in. leap, a shade off his best ever. But in the broad jump he pulled a thigh muscle and placed sixth. At day's end he was running 27 points behind the record pace...