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...side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
...slobbing starts as Marine Mitchum, smeared with sweat and beard, rolls over the side of a rubber life raft, staggers through the surf to a palm-fringed island and proceeds, with the hearty cooperation of the sound track, to slurp up several gallons of the nearest fresh-water lagoon. The next thing he sees is a nun, and for all the surprise he shows, the audience might think that nuns just sort of naturally came with tropical islands. But Deborah is dramatically startled to see him. "Naow, le's jus' take it easy, ma'am," says Mitchum...
...surf off the Mexican resort of Acapulco swam a typical Hollywood twosome, dashing Cinemactor Michael Wilding and jet-powered Cinemagnate Michael Todd. After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice...
...turn, and found a parking space near the stadium gate. The Harvard band played them to their seats. Sunlight poured down, warming them. The nippy air filled their lungs with clean coolness. Conversation buzzed around them; martial music stirred them; they lent their voices to cheers surging like surf from the sea of happy faces. Awed by it all, they sought each other's eyes...
...Clock. The Eisenhower pluralities kept pounding in like the surf. "How long, O Lord, how long!'' muttered a New York Stevensonite, in wry memory of the 1956 Democratic keynote speech. The answer seemed to be: until the last returns from the Coast. West Virginia came in for Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality...