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...A.S.D.E. the runways show up as black bands outlined by radar reflections from the knee-high grass that grows on their margins. Airplanes moving along them are not mere shapeless blobs; they are sharply defined bright bars, and experienced radarmen can even tell one type of plane from another. A car or truck shows up as a smaller rectangle, and a man who steps out of one shows as a bright dot. Any obstacle on a runway, such as a misguided truck or a disabled airplane, is spotted at a glance...
Then came airliners and bombers. A Vickers Viscount liner swooped over the field with three of its four turboprop engines feathered, and did a climbing turn. A Canberra jet bomber whirled in acrobatics as if it were a carnival stunt plane. A Comet jet liner lumbered down the runway, then jumped steeply into the air, pushed by rocket boosters...
...arrived over Kansas City in the midst of a heavy rainstorm. For 75 minutes the plane circled. Then it made one hair-raising pass at the field and pulled up again. The final landing was a thriller. The pilot came down in thick rain through pitch blackness, hit the runway with engines roaring and bounced 50 feet into the air before settling back. It was 3 .a.m. before Ike got to bed in Kansas City's Town House...
...Pens & Runways. The new prison pens, intended to house no more than 520 men each, measure some 200 by 155 ft. and are surrounded by a double fence of barbed wire. They are arranged in groups of eight in larger enclosures, which are also fenced with double barriers of barbed wire. The large enclosures are traversed by a central barbed-wire runway, which makes it easy for guards to reach any of the smaller pens with tear gas. Constant and thorough searches, and floodlighting at night are expected to prevent the prisoners from cutting the wire and thus assembling...
...tired, headed for bed. Next morning they were up in time for a 10:30 a.m. takeoff. The sun had just broken through the clouds over Washington when their Constellation swept across the National Airport, wheeled to the south on a wide sweeping turn, and touched down on the runway at 3:55 p.m. Precisely at 4 o'clock, the Eisenhowers stepped out smilingly into the roped-off crowd at the MATS terminal-and into the political...