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...outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were doing in Egypt," and blurted that he had contemplated suicide after he climbed...
...Edison company), he was felled by a whiff of gas. The way he saw things, Con Edison's refusal to support his claim for compensation, and the "perjury" of fellow employees who abetted the company, had made him forever dependent on the sisters, who worked respectively in a button factory and a brass mill...
Carthage Any well-mannered kibitzer knows enough to button his lips as he leers over a bridge player's shoulder - especially if the world championship is at stake. So the crowd that crammed a room of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week to watch Italy's best take on a team of six of the best U.S. players was a little surprised when it was urged to break all the un written rules. "Hiss when you want to," said the master of ceremonies. "Cheer or boo or shout. The players can't hear you." The players...
Electric Wristwatch. The first commercial electric wristwatch was put on sale by Hamilton Watch Co. The same size as conventional watches, it is powered by a shirt-button-sized 1.5-volt battery. Price: $89.50 for gold-filled model, $175 for 14-carat gold-cased model, $1.75 apiece for replacement batteries...
...boxes" long used to summon doctors, St. Thomas' Hospital in London adopted some helpful gadgetry. Hooked up to a magnetic loop surrounding the hospital is a transmitter rigged for 56 different frequencies, with one assigned to each staff doctor. When he is wanted, a porter presses the right button, the magnetic impulses actuate a receiver in the doctor's breast pocket so that it gives a discreet "ping, ping," clearly audible to him, not disturbing to others...