Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoothly down the Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...
...worry: his cargo consisted of two tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About 1 a.m.. back in his hotel, he heard fire engines roar by, ran toward his truck. He still had half a block to go and a corner to turn when a blockbusting blast smashed him against the ground. Clocks all over Roseburg (pop. 12,200) stopped with hands pointing...
Minutes after the blast, Roseburg began to rally. From the Rumblebees Motorcycle Club to the National Guard, volunteer forces backed up police and firemen, sealed off the 23-block danger area, hauled the 52 injury cases to hospitals, kept out looters. Damage estimates ran to $12 million, but the count on the dead was harder to come by. The coroner's deputies accounted for twelve bodies, then sent off for lab tests samples of lighter ashes that might be eight or more transients in transient apartments. Five blocks from the crater lay a bent axle, the biggest piece left...
...fire a series of atom bombs. To his delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None of the armed forces would give him notice of projected firings; Tepee's men finally had to set up their own system of volunteer watchers on Cape Canaveral to warn them when a firing seemed imminent. Meanwhile, the FCC caviled about the frequencies he wanted...
Liston is one of 25 children born to an Arkansas farmer and his two wives. At twelve, Liston had an argument with his father, ran away to live with his mother in St. Louis. He later landed in jail after helping to hold up a restaurant. There Liston learned to read, met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. Liston studied Joe Louis' My Life Story by the hour, soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...