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Used during World War II as an Air Transport Command base, Mellaha is strategically located for the diplomatic war in the Mediterranean. It is a ramp from which A.T.C. planes, carrying a steadily increasing military traffic, can take off to southern Europe and the Middle East. From desolate Mellaha's three strips, it is 775 miles to Athens, goo miles to the Dardanelles, 1,300 miles to Palestine...
...LaGuardia, the Authority has made a promising start. Fifty vending machines (tooth brushes, toothpaste, etc.) have been installed. To attract sightseers (at 10? a head), loudspeakers on the promenade ramp give a play-by-play explanation of operations. On one Sunday, some 13,000 people watched the show...
Just before 8:30 one morning last week, an olive drab Cadillac rolled down the ramp to the underground parking lot of the Pentagon Building. Its passenger, cap set ever so slightly at a rake, stepped out, pulled down his trim, suntan Eisenhower jacket and strode toward the elevator. Pentagon workers did not need to glance at the five-star circlets on his shoulder straps to know who he was. They gave him "good morning." General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower grinned his acknowledgments, got into the elevator, was soon in his third-floor office and busy...
...black line-squall loomed in the northwest and lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
...pair of steps leading from the ground floor up the first flight of stairs. "We tried everything to make these two steps safe," he said; "we sand-papered them, marked them with black lines, flooded them with spotlights. But people still fell." Now, under the new setup, a ramp covered with the special cement material has been set in over the stairs. If unsatisfactory, it can be lifted out intact...