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Long a close-kept secret both as to precise location and physical description, Camp David last week was briefly opened to newsmen for a rare look. Its 184 acres on the east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue...
...occasional outburts expressing dissatisfaction, the French were influential only in the sense that a French maid is influential in getting the dishes washed. With the arrival of the Depression, some of the Calvinists found themselves washing their own dishes in the gloomy loneliness of their homes high up the slope of Mount Royal...
...name of Marti Arrougé, the young Basque who trod the warm earth of Squaw Valley through many young summers following the bands of his father's sheep, who lost his only brother in one of its clear lakes and whose nimble skis have caressed its every slope? It was Arrougé who was the original partner of Wayne Poulsen; together they supplied the land and Gushing the money. Marti Arrougé has played an important part in the development of Squaw Valley, has been a loyal supporter all the way, remains a stockholder, and, incidentally because he also...
Calling to their assailants for mercy, Father Georges and his cousin edged up the slope, where four Moslems kept them covered with their guns, then marched them off in the direction of Jaafra. On the way, the two captives were robbed of their money by one of the assassins, and of their wristwatches by another. When a third searched them and found nothing. he said: "Did the others take your money and watches? That's all right then...
...like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...