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...shattering roar. A fireball rose in the night; the overcast trapped the light and held it until it turned a dark orange. The crew, the general, the observers, the newsmen-died instantly. Men on the flight line at Westover froze into a stunned shock for an instant, then sprang to rescue stations. Screeching fire trucks and ambulances, their red lights blinking eerily, roared away from the flight line; but there was no rescue. In flat disciplined tones, the Westover control tower operator ordered the fourth KC-135, already set for the mission-and, with Cocoa, scheduled for a nonstop round...
...days later, Oscar sprang another surprise on long-suffering KCOP-TV: he gave the station six days' notice (he had no contract), announced he was switching to Channel 9, which he had only days before characterized as "the Skid Row channel." On his last KCOP shows he laid into KCOP lustily: "I am in a stream of very bad consciousness. Wherefore of late I have lost my mirth, to quote General Trujillo, I want to express my appreciation for the lack of cooperation, the lack of consideration, the lack of even primitive facilities, which have made...
...Jerusalem that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed sprang from Zionist and Socialist dreams in 19th century European ghettos. In their idealistic zeal the pioneers of the new Zion tilled the desert and made it blossom like Isaiah's rose, filled the cities with factories until they hummed like Ezekiel's wheel. In the first decade of independence they brought 915,000 immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa in a visionary "Ingathering of the Exiles" that more than doubled the tiny republic's population, and made it a dynamic and orderly body politic in sharp contrast with...
After once turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...
Despite the postponement, there were heartening signs last week that U.S.-Latin American relations are making a healthy readjustment from the sense of outrage and , shock that sprang from the violent attacks on the U.S. Vice President. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munñoz Marin put the Nixon incidents in perspective by urging the U.S. to "take a new look...