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...guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future hazardous missions? Answered Rear Admiral Frederic Stanton Withington, 57, U.S. naval commander in Japan: "I will sure do my best...
...crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide him with an alibi, he could see the flames dancing in his rear-view mirror...
...doubts is César himself. When passion is spent and the iron is cool, he views his own works with sobering detachment. Says César: "I wind up foreign to my sculptures, and see them lucidly. The result is I'm always kicking myself in the rear...
...case grew out of a United Auto Workers' strike at Ford's Canton, Ohio castings plant in 1953. Seeking a reason for reopening a five-year wage contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment...
...eyesight, the result of a boyhood rock fight, kept him out of shooting war. In wartime Washington, he originated the morale-building idea of awarding an "E" (for Excellence) pennant to outstanding war plants, helped set up the Office of Naval Research, wound up with the rank of rear admiral and the top medals a chairborne warrior could win: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit...