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...under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from a space-flight movie, and the ground around the launcher is overcast with smoke, but at no time...
...lashed together by a strap behind his back, and his wrists were lashed together in front. His legs were tied in three places: thighs, knees and ankles The nine big rockets (total thrust 40,000 lbs.) fired all together, and the sled leaped down the rails, leaving behind ; huge cloud of smoke and overtaking a jetplane flying overhead. When the rocket: burned out. the sled was moving at 63 m.p.h. Then the water brake took hold throwing fountains of spray, and brough it to a rapid stop...
...Dally News editorial commented that "Yale's authorities are almost undoubtedly too convinced of their own rectitude to alter their rush and unwise decision to an Countryman. But let the thought remain with them that the cloud of mediocrity will hover more menacingly that ever over Yale after he has departed...
Everybody knows the scene: the star-tied shepherds on the hillside looking up, awestruck, to a bright cloud in which floats a bevy of willowy women, winged, golden-haired and equipped with elongated trumpets. These, naturally, are angels. Or are they? In the current issue of the Roman Catholic monthly The Sign, Benedictine Father Kilian McDonnell vehemently protests against these treacly travesties-the reason, he says, that no one takes angels seriously any more...
Suddenly there is a waffling noise in her chimney, the sound of tearing cloth, and a rain of shiny brass buttons into the fireplace. Then, with a loud plop, a red-clad figure appears on the hearth in a cloud of ash-dust, coughing violently. And Virginia thinks the recognizes...