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...nontoxic. Unlike oils, it dries in minutes and does not change color in the process. When dry, synthetic paint up to three-quarters of an inch thick bends readily without buckling or cracking, so that tomorrow's test-tube Titians may safely be rolled up for shipment...
...January 1942, he stopped by the local court house and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Boot camp was a breeze ("I never had to scrub a barracks with a toothbrush or anything"), and there was even a baseball team at Mare Island, Calif., where Hank was awaiting shipment to the Pacific. But the easy life came to an abrupt halt. "One morning," says Hank, "this sergeant came up to me and said, 'Why don't you volunteer for the Raider battalion?' I said okay. But the first thing they told...
...what would the public say about the latest shipment of U.S. aid? In the Senate, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, long a supporter of a strong foreign policy, rose to ask if the U.S. was about to enter "another undeclared war," then warned solemnly: "I strongly oppose letting the Congo become our African Viet...
...guerrillas were armed wih submachine guns, pistols, grenades and explosives. Two of the guns were Belgian Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles that bore the Cuban military crest and were traced to a 1959 shipment to Castro. There were also five antitank projectiles of Russian make...
...talking to the Man upstairs and let him guide me." Hurriedly, sea men at the Christchurch base dumped mail onto the plane for the isolated Americans, who hadn't seen a letter for five months. Messages from McMurdo urged, "Heavy on the eggs," but extra fuel, and a shipment of unrequested apples and mixed fruit pressed on the lads by the Salvation Army, left no room for that request. Flying south from Christchurch, Mayer, his 15-man crew and two surgeons were soon over the deep green of the Antarctic Sea. Below were the ships of New Zealand...