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Frets & Fears. For all its wonders of communications, coordination and electronics, there are some gaps in NORAD's shield-and no one is more aware of them than NORAD's integrated U.S. and Canadian staff, which is directly responsible to the U.S. Joint Chiefs and the Canadian Chiefs of Staff Committee. NORAD directs some 50 fighter-interceptor squadrons, and has absorbed the former Air Defense Commands of the two countries. Most of the detection system's aircraft-seeking radar and all its missile-hunting antennas are poised toward the north, in logical anticipation of a possible polar...
...Crying?" The Kennedys try to shield Daughter Caroline from too much publicity. But despite all her parents' efforts, Caroline is a real Kennedy: she makes news. She came clutching her mother's shoes into a presidential press conference at Palm Beach. Carefully rehearsed, she was on hand to proffer a fresh rose to an enchanted Nehru at Newport. Once, Kennedy had to break off a TV filming to go and wipe Caroline's offstage tears ("Who's crying in this house?" he demanded). Again the President of the U.S., spending a weekend at Glen...
...sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about her birth. Apple Annie? The girl never heard of her. She thinks her mother is the worthy Mrs. E. Worthington Manville, no less...
...Sahara's first fire, equipment that is readily available in other fields has to be flown in from England, France and the U.S. Meantime, a well has to be drilled 2,600 ft. down to water-bearing sands to provide the 40,000 gallons needed daily to shield the firemen and to dampen the area around GT2 in order to prevent sparks from relighting the fire before the gas flow is plugged. While these preliminaries are going on, Adair will continue to pop around the world taking care of other troublesome wells. But he will be back by Christmas...
Surgeon Scales suggests that air-cushion levitation may be helpful in human patients by 1) reducing shock, 2) preventing loss of fluids by oozing from wound or burn areas, 3) quickly creating a dry, germproof "shield" over the wound, and 4) avoiding bedsores. How well a human patient would take to living on an upended wind tunnel, he does not yet know...