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...airport to his hotel in a geranium-red Lincoln with 100 motorcycle cops leading the way. That night at Soldier Field, 50,000 (not a capacity crowd) cheered him to the echo when he rose-after being driven around the great bowl in the dramatic glare of a single searchlight beam-to make the second formal speech since his return...
...Torreón control tower's searchlight picked up Flight 202 coming back, one of its operators spotted a dark object clinging to the horizontal stabilizer on the right of the plane's rudder. When Guzman brought the ship in, the object slid off and ran right into the ground crew's arms. It was Cliserio Reyes...
...hour-and-five-minute film had its premiere at the University Theatre last year on the weekend of the Army football game. Nineteen hundred people crowded into the searchlight-flooded building and the doors were closed to 100 more. The only other showing took place before alumni and seniors during Senior Week last June...
...belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed to catch us in a beam, as though from a searchlight...