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Three restful days at Eagle's Crest were Elizabeth's and Philip's preparation for the most strenuous week of their tour. In the next four days, they sped eastward across 2,500 miles of Canada to see, and be seen by, more cheering Canadian crowds. This week they would arrive in Washington for a three-day stopover at Blair House as guests of President and Mrs. Truman. On the program are two formal dinners, luncheon with the Tru-mans and a round of capital receptions and sightseeing, patterned on the visit of the British King...
...train swerved off the main line and sped down a seldom-used spur leading between low hills, straight to the German border. On D-day minus one, Truksa had motorcycled to Asch and thrown a switch...
...last week, a pair of F-86 Sabre jets headed out to sea, engines shrieking at full power. Their fleeing quarry was a huge red "bird" that had shot up 35,000 feet from the Air Force's Guided Missile Test Center at Banana River, leveled off, and sped out over the Atlantic. At top speed, the 670-m.p.h. Sabre jets could barely keep up with it. A few minutes later, the strange race was suddenly over. Radio signals bleeped out from Banana River, and the giant bird dived into the ocean...
...last week a fleet of white trucks loaded with 440 cops sped away from Tokyo's metropolitan police station. The arrival of the raiders at Red headquarters near Meiji Park sent men & women party members tumbling out of the doors to be collared outside. Inside, sitting calmly at a clean-topped desk, was Eiichi Iwata, a high party official. "I knew you were coming," he told the raiders. "I've developed a terrific sixth sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer...
...with the soaring strains of Mahler's Song of the Earth. Then, after three strokes on a bronze gong, a Chinese woman in a richly brocaded gown began speaking Mandarin into a goosenecked microphone. Her message, delivered for the first time just after sunup one morning last week, sped 6,000 miles across the Pacific to pierce the bamboo curtain that surrounds Red China. Radio Free Asia...