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Visibility was little more than a mile when Colonel William H. Councill sent his pencil-slim Lockheed P-80 fighter whooshing down the runway at Long Beach, Calif. With its turbojet propulsion, the Shooting Star could cover a mile in six seconds. Councill climbed out of the mists, turned on his oxygen, headed for New York. Cities seven miles beneath him began to flash past: La Junta, Colo. (870 miles) in 1 hr. 38 min.; Salina, Kans. (1,190 miles) in 2 hr. 9 min.; Chanute Field, Ill. (1,700 miles) in 3 hr. 2 min. A tail wind pushed...
Hence the whole line of investigation was solely speculative, and "table-top seismology" with pencil and paper Leet admitted was very uncertain. It was not that the scientists were unable to make a beginning and to define the problem in physical and mathematical terms, but the actual test proved as much a surprise to them as it turned out later for Japanese Imperial Headquarters...
...Sunday night after his resignation, Charles de Qaulle spent hours alone in his study at the Neuilly villa. At 2 a.m. a few watchers saw his long, pencil-thin silhouette at his lighted bedroom window. For a long time he gazed into the night...
...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
...Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...