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...word came back: slow down. By the time the plane touched ground at Travis Air Force Base and taxied into the television and newsreel lights one night last week, everything was in readiness. Air police tried to hold back a cheering crowd of 500. As soon as the ramp was lowered, a beaming woman hurried up into the outstretched arms of her husband. There, in the relative privacy of the big plane, Major General William F. Dean and his wife embraced. When they emerged, smiling, a few moments later, the crowd broke ranks and surged around them. The most famed...
...perched on the girders of a half-completed traffic ramp on Manhattan's lower East Side one afternoon last week, Louis Sarno, a sinewy construction foreman, saw a big-city tragedy in the making. Directly across traffic-jammed South Street an apartment window stood open. As Sarno watched, a two-year-old boy climbed on the sill, teetered in fright four floors above the sidewalk. Sarno yelled at two gardeners working across the street. They did not hear him. The 41-year-old foreman wasted no more time...
...Guggenheim Foundation asked him in 1945 to build an art museum for Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, he designed what might be taken as a monument to himself. It would be shaped, he said, "like the chambered nautilus." The picture gallery would consist of a quarter-mile ramp, slowly rising in a spiral to a height of 72 ft. where it would culminate in a huge dome...
...barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew is polished down-stairs in the "tank," a ramp outfitted with regulation oars and seats, surrounded by water. Each rower pulls an oar through the moving water, as the coaches correct flaws in technique...
...their fate. Meekly they surrendered and asked a Roman Catholic priest to baptize them. Then, all eight squatted on the ground and kissed a handful of red earth in token of their love for the land. A few minutes later, as the morning golfers watched, they disappeared up the ramp leading to the hidden gallows. "The executions," said an official bulletin, "were carried out according...