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...TIME, April 18, 1949), first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From...
...Good morning, madam, have you a cheap room?" asks the boy. "Cheaper than sunlight to you, Danny Boy," says the girl...
...defense workers, military observers and state governors, just waiting. To the north, the Joshua trees stood like shaggy ghosts, and behind them lights marked the 500-ft. tower that held the bomb. Near by, TV crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough clothing, except, perhaps, veteran Atom-Bomb Watcher Leonard. He was encased in layers of woolens. wearing a cowboy hat with a brim curled like a potato chip...
...have been the unexpected sunlight, or it may have been the good condition of the Stadium track, but whatever the reason, the Crimson track team gave its strongest dual track exhibition in many years Saturday, slaughtering Dartmouth, 100 to 40. Two meet records were broken and a third tied...
...anyway. Last week an Ohio Court of Appeals ruled that the press had a right in the courtroom. Said the Court of Appeals: "A defendant has no right ... to a private trial . . . Crime and corruption grow and thrive in darkness and secrecy. Justice thrives in the open sunlight...