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Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...
...steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...
Istanbul's paved boulevards and narrow cobbled streets echo with the shrill tootle of otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee...
Disillusion in London. In Paris, the golden skies and wide boulevards played to bigger crowds than the Communists. The Reds marched into the Place de la Bastille, lilies of the valley in their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000 made merry at a Gaullist carnival, ate colored ices, and paid 20 francs for the privilege of firing shooting-gallery rifles at caricatures of Premier Joseph Stalin and French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez...
With both players exhausted, Freeman still had uncanny control of his serve, a shot that lobs skyward for 30 feet or so, then plummets to earth so dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...