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Across the U.S. last week, music lovers were pulling themselves away from their after-supper TV and their hi-fi sets. Into private cars and public buses they loaded blankets, cushions and bottles of anti-bug lotions, and rode off to the local stadiums and amphitheaters. At about twilight, they plumped by the thousands on damp grass, slatted benches or cold concrete, and spent the evening straining to catch the sounds of distant fiddling, blowing or singing. In short, the U.S. outdoor music season was under...
...Washington on one engine.) It has a cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., can accommodate two passengers and two crewmen (on comfortable seats upholstered in blue nylon). Its cost to the Government: approximately $75,000. The President has not christened the plane yet, but the crew calls it "The Bug...
...accompanied by two Air Force pilots and James J. Rowley, Chief of the White House Secret Service Detail, was obviously pleased by the flight. The Bug was tailed by three agents, armed with pistols and Tommy guns, in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza. Said Ike: "A lovely plane...
...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...
...black boxes" that do almost as well. It can fly under automatic controls, or it can be flown by radio from a distance. It can make a gunnery run on a real airplane as if a human pilot were on board. It can buzz in curves like a June bug, giving the pilot who tries to attack it a simulated dogfight. When posing as a bomber, it can carry radar-reflecting devices that make it look like a large airplane on the radarscope...