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...over, Newport, with good New England grace, allowed the Eisenhowers the privacy they had come for. On Coasters Harbor Island they settled down in the naval base's commanding officer's refurbished Quarters A, a 67-year-old, 2½-story, white brick colonial-style house whose second-floor windows overlook Narragansett Bay. The President established a routine divided between play and work in his temporary office in the base communications building 100 ft. from Quarters A. Across the bay at the venerable (67 years old) Newport Country Club he played golf, doffed...
...down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some of the rioters shouted: "Destroy, but don't steal...
...Sense of Destiny. Under such provocation, resistance spread. In a sunny front room of his second-floor apartment, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo asked the city's leading businessmen and bankers to join in a commercial strike...
...planes. In plans for Pan Am's $8.000,000 jet-age terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers who do not have to go through customs will get their baggage within five minutes from a speedy conveyer belt...
...auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight days later Claire Ward went to Chicago to appear before a meeting of chest physicians. Last October, almost nine years after her operation, she had a second child. She takes full care of her children and her second-floor walk-up apartment...