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...some of the crewmen swarmed in to greet them. Newsmen herded one and all into a briefing room. Did Russia know of the mission? "Certainly, Russia knew about it," replied the general. Were the bombers armed? "This was an unarmed mission," i.e., no bombs aboard, but radar-controlled tail guns carried ammunition...
...Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...Psychiatry to Chopin. Abby rarely clucks at length over the details of dating and mating. When a theater cashier confided her secret passion for the married manager, Abby counseled: "Find another job. It's not worth being the tail-end of a double feature." A bachelor confided that he knew a sweet, demure girl who would make a wonderful wife, and another girl, "uninhibited, gay." who "comes up to my room." "How," he asked, "shall I discourage this girl?" Quipped Abby: "Which girl?" When a California husband complained that his wife, though "smoochable, affectionate and responsive" before marriage...
...dread Antarctic whiteout, the dazzle of reflected light that erases all landmarks and horizons. It was, said an airman, "like flying inside a pingpong ball." The big Air Force troop carrier groped for the icy runway, plowed into a snowbank and slithered over the ice with nose down and tail high. "The feel and sound of 150,000 pounds of airplane sliding out of control is an experience I would like only once," said Rees. Fortunately, the crew and Correspondent Rees, a World War II Air Force veteran, emerged from the battered plane shaken up but uninjured...
...then there was the young girl with a pony tail and a green book-bag which was a little frayed at the seams, who had walked back from Widener at the closing hour with the young man with whom she had had a study date. At the steps in the shadows before her dormitory he kissed her very quickly and very tremulously on the lips. She stood in silence for a moment, then asked very earnestly, "Why did you do that?" He stood in the dark for a moment and answered very honestly, "I don't know. I just wanted...