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Bundled in a special harness, lying (in the foetal position, which was thought to be safest) between two poles which held up a nylon loop, Doster watched a Stinson Voyager plane swoop down, suddenly felt himself lifting easily. ("No jerking sensation at all.") A winch pulled him up into the belly of the plane...
...Everyone must go about his business . . . and when the long day is done seek the safest shelter he can find. . . . This House will be affronted if any suggestion is made that it should change its venue...
...diameter. Many Jap caves had steel doors which were opened periodically for machine guns to fire. Snipers were everywhere. An Army colonel was shot through the heart by a sniper who had hidden more than a week. A recurrent gag, reported TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, was that the safest place to be was in the front line...
Franklin Roosevelt, just two weeks before the Republican convention, was on the safest possible middle ground on internationalism-whatever that net-to-catch-the-wind may mean. He had gained a point: his critics can no longer say he has no international program...
...Safest thing, politically, for the U.S. Government to do is to do nothing...