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...returned to active service as Air Force officers, were in the process of making air rescues of American troops cut off in Red territory in the Korean war. Both rescues were complicated by pretty, willful females-Canyon's by Dr. Deen Wilderness and Terry's by Nurse Spray O'Hara...
...comment on the current value of the dollar was made at a Neiman-Marcus fashion show in Dallas. Instead of using the conventional costly flowers and bows, an enterprising milliner trimmed a green straw frame with a spray of thirty-two $1 bills. After it was modeled, the chic number was presented with the compliments of the store to a visitor: U.S. Treasurer Georgia Neese Clark. Said she, trying it on: "I'm sure this is one hat that's worth the money...
cannon With the scent and bloom of a lilac spray...
...militarily efficient. An enemy might explode his bombs on the ground or, particularly in an attack on river-girdled New York City, might set them off under water deliberately sacrificing some of their blast effect. In such cases, radioactive contamination would become a massive problem. The deadly dust or spray drifting slowly downwind would not be obviously dangerous. Its radiation could not be detected by any human sense, and a man might absorb a fatal dose of it before feeling any ill effect...
Waterskiing, speedy, spray-dashed and a little daffy, is a sport that looks as American as rodeo riding. Actually, the accepted story goes, it was invented by officers of France's snow-skiing Chasseurs Alpins, who took to the waters of Lake Annecy in the French Alps some 20 years ago on a dare. Since those days, it has grown up on the lakes, rivers and bays of the U.S. into a lusty-sized sport-although it still has a long way to go before it threatens its hilly, cold-weather cousin in popularity...