Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events in an effort to keep the Class interested in staying for the June 19-23 program. Already scheduled tentatively for June 15 is an outing during the afternoon to the North Shore. Daniel B. Ray Second Marshal of the Class, said last night that more activities for the post exam period would be announced at a later date...
Miss Rice was assistant Red Book editor this year and until last month held an editorial post on the Annex newspaper...
Happy Bottom. With its red dust, desolation and run-down buildings, Muroc is not an attractive place to live. But for the test pilots like Chuck, who do not have to live on the post, it is not too bad. The mountain-ringed desert, with its mourning Joshua trees, has a kind of austere beauty. On its broad plain are little oases - alfalfa farms kept green by diesel-pumped water. There is hunting and riding. When these rural pleasures pall, Los Angeles is only 70 miles away (eleven minutes as the jet flies...
Other relaxation is close to the post : an aviation dude ranch called Pancho's Fly-Inn (or the Happy Bottom Riding Club). The ranch has its own airport, lighted at night, so that guests, friends and airborne wayfarers can fly in at all hours. The Fly-Inn is a much-buzzed place. Standing alone on the flat desert with only a few low trees, it invites the dangerous prank that all young pilots play, no matter what the threats of flying field managers or military C.O.s. Chuck Yeager has roared low over the ranch in every sort of airplane...
Miss Edith Annin, of Richmond, will assume the post of head-resident of Radcliffe's Moors Hall when the newest Annex dormitory opens in September...