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...five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
...privately with U.S. visitors in Canada. But there is a compelling reason why he may not follow either course: the Canadian government, which supplies a full-time police guard for the Gouzenkos and their two children, has strongly hinted that the guard will be withdrawn if Gouzenko chooses to abandon his own security arrangements. Gouzenko, who was chased by NKVD agents in Ottawa after his break for freedom in 1945, still fears that the Reds would kill him to set an example for other doubters and "to prove that they have a long...
...President has ever been subpoenaed before. Two court subpoenas were issued to President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the treason proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...
Packard, a notable holdout for a straight-eight engine, plans to abandon it for a V-8 in its 1955 models. General Motors will also switch to V-8s for its two lowest-priced lines-Chevrolet and Pontiac...
...superb B-flat Sonata (K. 333) Mr. Lewin also failed to achieve the abandon one might hope for, he yet gave it a fluent and sensitive reading to end this highly satisfying program...