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Foster Dulles greeted his welcomers, Vice President Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, aboard Columbine, then emerged smiling, grey Homburg clamped on head, looking tanned but thin. He had a mock shoving match with Nixon at the top of the ramp to see who would make the descent first; they came down together, still jostling. Said Dulles into microphones at the bottom of the ramp: "I feel pretty good...
...Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead son, a dying sister, a mother's funeral, etc.-the colonel turned his back, gathered up his family, marched to the loading ramp...
...Washington's new Chantilly Airport (completion date: 1961) plans something called "mobile departure lounges." Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...
...labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from the beach to his plateau of sand. When the pyramid was about seven feet high it was finished, and the sweating professor toted to the top one of the hooded wicker chairs that are popular on European beaches. There on his sand castle he would sit overlooking it all-the scampering...
...plans take into account the possibility that the City may decide to widen Boylston Street on its west side. If Boylston were widened, it is understood that the University would favor depressing the street below ground level so that a ramp could be built across...