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...southern jet stream, after an exceptionally cold, wet run over California, dried out and warmed up so thoroughly as it crossed the Continental Divide that it left huge chunks of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida parched in its wake. Meandering farther north than usual, the southern stream ran smack into the polar air mass over the East, causing exceptionally heavy rains and unseasonal snowfalls...
...loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
Lyon was leading Sochaux, 2-1, with three minutes to play in the French soccer championships, when a Lyon player thwunked the ball toward the sidelines. Up it sailed, completely out of the playing area and-zut alors!-landed smack in the presidential box. A pandemonium of plenipotentiaries was averted when Charles de Gaulle, 76, whipped the ball back toward the field, as thousands cheered. "It was good. It was good. I had a fine time," said le grand Charles later, presenting the winner's cup to Lyon and bussing each team captain on both cheeks...
...take long for the patrol to discover that it had landed smack in the midst of a Viet Cong concentration. As skilled as Victor Charlie in the deadly blindman's buff of jungle warfare, Team Two soon realized that the enemy was following its every move. Each time Staff Sergeant Glide Brown Jr. halted his men, they could hear a couple of footfalls close behind-and then a bristling silence. As the jungle dusk deepened into blackness, Brown set up a defense perimeter and listened more closely. Above the keening of insects, geckos and night birds, he heard...
...that is about as tradey as Johnny ever lets himself get. None of the competition can match Carson's audience empathy. He never comes on too worldly or too show biz, shuns its phony language and, whenever possible, the greeting kisses from celebrities who brush cheeks and smack air. In sum, he plays the audience's ambassador to his own show. The idea is not to be too thick with the celebrities or too awed by them. His job is to set them up, to put them on gently, and to raise the questions that his viewers might...