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Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
...established entertainment choices along Shubert Alley is Samuel Taylor's "Sabrina Fair." Margaret Sullavan has a chance to skitter about the stage while Joseph cotten scutters after her. the problem, something about a chauffeur's daughter with Parisian ideas, is amusingly worked out at the National...
Even if he had wanted to, Pella could not skitter or give ground. And he did not want to. Though he likes to refer to his government as a "transition" government, Pella does not intend it to be transitory. Having won support that even the renowned Alcide de Gasperi failed to win before him, the new Premier felt that he could consolidate his regime with a favorable Trieste settlement. To fortify him Pella had the solemn 1948 declaration of the U.S., Britain and France, in which they renounced previous positions and advocated the return of the Free Territory of Trieste...
...Tredway Corp. are five vice presidents. They are Jesse Grimm, the up-from-the-bench production man who demands perfection from his machines but is "too quick to excuse the lack of it in his people"; Don Walling, the fair-haired boy of design and development who seems to "skitter about over the . . . surface" of a problem, gathering up unrelated facts, and then solves it with "a brilliant flash of pure creative imagination"; J. Walter Dudley, the sales boss, a "runner who [runs] without a goal" and thinks that if he runs hard, and makes enough friends, "everything [will...
...days, while the Marines tried to get set for a shot at him, he popped out of Bloody Nose's honeycomb of Jap-dug caverns, fired and disappeared. While hunters searched he would skitter through tunnels, pop out of another opening and fire again. He had killed 87 Marines, all of them with a shot through the head...