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...above the range of Russian fighters, he made "one or two" trips along the Soviet border in 1956, ''six or eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which...
...first the invisible, uninvited guest was a minor nuisance. Every so often it seemed to amuse itself by bouncing a ball down the stairs. Then the ball began to thud like a sack of potatoes. Empty rooms echoed with eerie cries for help. But what made it all intolerable was when the ghost sat down with the family before the television set and amused itself by brushing clammy hands across unsuspecting faces...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...
...usual reaction to mention of Henry IV is to think first of Falstaff (and the Cambridge Drama Festival has chosen a drawing of him for its poster) and second of politics. But these plays are less about drinking sack and more about ruling England (and Falstaff wants nothing to do with that, save as it gives him a chance to abuse the King's press and line his pockets with silver and his belly with food and wine...
...brand of cookies stored in the galley, and take water-temperature readings to trace the warm Gulf Stream with a thermometer graded in 100ths of a degree. No one on Finisterre would think of lounging about during off-hours; each man dons eyeshade and earplugs and hits the sack for some serious sleep. In action, the crew spots trouble so swiftly that Mitchell seldom gives an order. As easily as lowering or raising a window shade, the men can change a sail in 15 seconds or less. Says a blue-water veteran who once shipped aboard Finisterre: "I felt like...