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When it comes to holding that candle aloft, there are few better men than Barkley. Old Alben is pretty sure to take the stump for a younger champion, telling fables of Paducah, reminding the party of the horrors of being out of power, and spreading love, love, love...
Elephants Aloft. It soon earned a reputation for flying planes anywhere, anytime, carrying anything. Four days after the Russian blockade, Seaboard was asked by the Air Force to help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish...
...been enlightened by General Ridgway's report that the United Nations lacked the strength to make it stick. Another possible explanation: Kefauver's recent chat with Harry Truman. Two days later he headed back to the hustings in his chartered Lockheed Lodestar, catching badly needed catnaps aloft with the aid of a sleeping mask. He invaded pro-Russell North Carolina for some folksy talk about daughter Linda's troubles with the mumps. Then he boarded his plane for Chattanooga, his adopted home town, to raise funds at a $25-a-head barbecue and to collect some extravagant...
...truncheon or the loaded automatic also found in the car. Next day, France's top Communist,* caught flagrante delicto, was led before a justice of the peace and held for "attempt against the security of the state" (maximum but unlikely penalty: Devil's Island). Holding his handcuffs aloft, Duclos told reporters: "There's democracy for you, messieurs; admire it!" More than 700 other rioters were arrested that same night; more than 200 were wounded and one Communist rioter lay dead...
Plain Reasoning. Some saucer reports are hoaxes; some are products of imagination. Others have come from glimpses of such ordinary objects as weather balloons, aircraft and even sheets of newspaper carried aloft by the wind. But Menzel became convinced that, in spite of such false alarms, competent and honest observers had been seeing unusual sights that needed explaining. He determined to find out by plain scientific reasoning what it was they...