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When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last...
...Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry? I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvelous...
...rose garden of the White House last week a delegation of Greeks, thankful for U.S. aid to their country, came bearing gifts-an ancient urn, a native rug inscribed to XAPPT Z. TPOTMAN. The President was also in a mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last week bestowing little presidential favors on the Congress, in his campaign to save the Fair Deal. Many a Congressman was surprised and flattered to find the President of the United States on the telephone, calling for just a friendly chat...
Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
...colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing, raise food under the supervision of the University of Hawaii agricultural extension service...