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...night in February, aboard a regularly scheduled DC-3 which was making its approach to Atlanta, he looked out of a window and saw automobile lights so shockingly close that he felt he could touch them. A few seconds later, as he bawled at passengers to get to the rear of the cabin, the big ship smashed into a hill with a doomlike roar. When silence fell, Rickenbacker was pinned down over the body of a dead steward by the weight of wreckage...
...wants to be able to dance and sing, free from care . . . Youth, with blue flags, merry songs and smiling eyes . . . will move through the streets of the capital. . . Who, dear friends [i.e., in West Berlin], is more welcome to you-peaceful German youth, or the atomic bombs of American rear-guard generals...
Space Ships. From September 1946 to February 1948, Commander McLaughlin, the 37-year-old Annapolisman who spun the best of the flying-saucer yarns, was chief of the Navy's guided-missiles unit at the White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. While there, he sent a report to Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, then in charge of the guided-missile program, that he had sighted a flying saucer at White Sands; he calculated its diameter at 105 ft. Recalled Admiral Gallery last week: "I sent back a message, 'What kind of whisky are you drinking out there...
Guerard's war is fought in a small nameless country on the Continent, between the sullen, deteriorating armies of Western Allies and a "dictatorship." He tells most of his story through the narrative of an intelligence sergeant, sent up from a rear area for propaganda work in the small country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare...
...Haven's plan offers coverage of every race. After the running of one, the locomotive at the rear of the train will pull it back up the river again, leaving it in position to follow the next race to the finish line...