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...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...
Tito has already shown himself skilled in pursuing the direction Moscow now wants to take. He has found a way of talking to the outside world. He has kept a tight security rein on his country without some of the more flagrant severities of Moscow. It is true that he has botched the running of his economy; the peasants are still poor and dissatisfied. But in this he is no worse than the Russians (neither dares admit that the difficulty is in the system itself). And he has shown agility and a certain style in diplomacy...
Last week there were no Bryans to argue the matter, but among U.S. bankers and businessmen, the debate raged hotly once again: Is the Government's tight control of the money supply a rein on inflation or a noose strangling the growth of the economy? Plenty cried "noose...
Meanwhile, Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...
...passengers with pillows beneath their safety belts and show them how to hold their heads down before the crash. Some of the children began to cry. An old lady became hysterical. Padre Gonzalez Salas prayed harder. One of the passengers asked him for absolution. With permission from Captain Rein-Loring, the priest went through the plane preparing his fellow passengers for death with the act of contrition and prayer...