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...Berkeley, Anita Davidsen, a graduate student's wife, looks at it differently. "Now," she said, after learning to grow and can vegetables, "I can imagine how satisfying it was for great-grandmother-over a hot stove all day but socking away 30 quarts of whatever. I'm canning things to give away as Christmas gifts...
...this weather is so bad. They say they had snow over at Harper." Chili beans bubbled on the stove, and the Bible lay in the center of the kitchen table. "I thought when I was tired of working I would move out of Johnson City," she said. "But I can't. I can't leave these people. They are so wonderful...I think Lyndon felt the same...
...Betty [the nurse] and I were putting the baby to bed. We closed and bolted all the shutters except on one window where the shutters are warped and won't close. . . At ten Betty went in to the baby, shut the window first, then lit the electric stove, then turned to the bed. It was empty and the sides still up. No blankets taken. . . Evidently they got about one and a half hours' start. You know the rest...
...small, narrow, and low-studded room, the greater part of which is taken up by the huge editorial table, and the cumbersome stove, are gathered about a dozen men, lolling in the window-seats, seated upon the paper-box or around the table. On the table is a large bowl of mild punch, a bottle or so of Bass's Ale (for the men in training) and a can of crackers. Near each man is a glass filled with his chosen drink, and scattered about at convenient intervals are piles of crackers. Smoke from pipes, cigars, and cigarettes curls gracefully...
...crew to a level of about three per week. Each mission involved a 17-hour workday, including twelve hours in the air as well as pre-and postflight briefings and debriefings. Meals were taken on board: some flyers preferred the older D models because they have a small stove on which a TV-style dinner can be cooked. On the Gs, cold box lunches are the rule. Crews are rotated home after a maximum of 179 days under a program code-named "Bullet Shot," but departure notices from U.S. bases are not always so meticulously planned. One pilot, whose wife...