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Grace retired from Hollywood after only eleven films. Her first important role was as Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. She played opposite Clark Gable in Mogambo, James Stewart in Rear Window and Frank Sinatra in High Society, and she won an Oscar in 1955 as Bing Crosby's wife in The Country Girl...
...look back; his left cheek, ear and arm were seared by flames. Said he: "I shall never forget the screaming, never." Miraculously, most of those aboard, including the pilot and ten crew members, managed to get out of the plane. But 50, most of them seated in the rear of the plane, died in the inferno, and 15 others were listed in serious condition. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, assisting Spanish and McDonnell Douglas experts, thought the vibrations may have come from one or more blown tires. Another possibility: a failure...
...What good would that do?" fumed Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat. "There will be no addresses, no streets, no blocks, no houses." Branding these blueprints "idiotic" and "deceitful," subcommittee members pointed out that there would also be no trucks, trains or airplanes for delivering the mail. Later, Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, a defense policy expert, said, "I can assure you that while neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay the postal couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, nuclear war will...
...bleacher at the rear of the amphitheater, beyond the shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant suburban church. Chautauqua was founded by Methodists as a boot camp for Sunday-school teachers, and even today an empty bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian...
...versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp on the rear of the C-5B and roll off on the ramp at the front. To load a 747, however, equipment must be hoisted 16 ft. off the tarmac and pushed through nose or side doors...