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...first rivalry was really just prologue. By New Year's major U.S. airlines will be flying timetable jet trips from New York to California. San Francisco, once no days away from New York by sailing packet, 2½ days away by rail and eight hours by nonstop piston transport, will move to a short distance of 4½ hours. The 49th state of Alaska will be closer to Washington-nine hours or so-than was the capital of Delaware...
...with her mother and a friend for her first evening dress-to be worn at her first dance. As the three women emerged from a shop on Famagusta's Hermes Street, the dress triumphantly in hand, Margaret screamed. Two black-trousered youths bore down on them, poured a packet of bullets into the backs of Margaret's mother and her companion. Mrs. Cutliffe, mother of five (the youngest 15 months), slumped to the sidewalk dead. Her friend, the wife of a sergeant in the same regiment, was seriously injured...
...every student letter printed in TIME, Adele Levine awards an extra A. Another stimulus to discussion is the packet of teaching aids (maps, special reports, news quizzes, etc.) sent out by TIME'S education department...
When Herter's report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...
...stubby accomplice leveled an automatic at seven late workers and busboys, he methodically laid fuses of gasoline-soaked toilet paper from pool to pool. When, at 3:45 a.m.. things were finally ready, the two hoods herded their captives out the back door unharmed, threw a flaming packet of matches inside, closed the door and drove off into the night while one of Cook County's biggest and best restaurants exploded into a million-dollar fire...