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...team of Air Force and civilian experts sent in under Major General Richard O. Hunziker, SAC deputy chief of staff for materiel, moved ahead with search-and-recovery operations. They soon found assorted bomb fragments and debris, including four parachutes that had been stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort...
...Tiger By the Tail, George Jones...
...Tiger By the Tail...
Seated amidst the gilt and crystal of a venerable concert hall, watching an elegantly tail-coated conductor lead a Brahms symphony, the modern concertgoer may sometimes feel that he is inhabiting a scene preserved in amber. In such a tradition-rounded realm, the conductor and everything under his sway appear to have been unaltered in half a century. His basic repertory is the same. The makeup of his orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity...
...Resignation. C rations came in handy to ranches isolated by flood- level runoff from the snow, which cut U.S. Highway 66 along much of its Arizona course. A man in Miami, Ariz., was rescued by choppers, but his pet monkey was found frozen to death, hanging by its tail from a tree. Other Navajos like Lily Crookedfinger, 90, and the Tsosie brothers were less fortunate: they died of exposure in the high country. Sheepherder Joe Shaggy, 25, weathered the blast though several of his woolies froze to death...