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Back in the tail of the plane, Press Secretary Hagerty, manning a hand-operated machine, cranked out press copies of each stencil. When Hagerty had duplicated 600 copies of each of the nine pages of text, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Presidential Adviser C. D. Jackson and the rest of the presidential party snatched up pages, assembled them in numbered order. At the end of the line stood Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, armed with a hand stapler, who efficiently fastened the copies of the speech together. By the time the Columbine landed in New York, Ike's high...
Tagging along close to the saint, however, is another investigator named Krampus, a creature as cynical and evil as the saint is good. Adorned with horns, a lizard-like tail and a hideous black tongue, Krampus makes it his business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly...
...Bridgeman, who considered it a "nasty little beast" (TIME, April 27). Actually, the X-3 is heavier and slightly longer (66 ft. 9 in.) than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold the two jet engines...
...opposite directions. But Sikorsky put his faith in one rotor. "One woman in the kitchen is fine," he says. "Two women in the kitchen get in each other's way.'' He decided to keep his fuselage from spinning simply by hanging a vertical fan on an outrigger at the tail...
...became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow his conversation with interest and thumped her tail on the floor approvingly when Marc's friends laughed at his sallies...