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...ushers will escort visitors through receiving lines, show reunionists around the College, and assist during the Commencement Week activities...
More bullets riddled the station wagon. General Jalandoni threw himself in front of Mrs. Quezon and drew his revolver. A rifle butt slammed into his cheek, he fell unconscious. Before the police escort riding behind could open fire effectively, the attackers had seized what valuables they could and melted into the green hills. Soon afterward, General Jalandoni came to. About him were twelve dead, including the Philippines' first lady, her daughter, and her son-in-law, whose pregnant wife had stayed at home...
...talking it over with the President and consulting the joint chiefs of staff, Secretary Johnson bought the Air Force point of view. His order would not wipe out the Navy's air arm or even reduce it. Its World War II carriers (21 all told, excluding light and escort carriers) would be on hand as a prime defense against submarines, and as floating fighter, dive-bomber and torpedo-plane bases. The Navy accepted the decision glumly and tersely. One flying admiral said: "On the record, no comment; off the record, no comment...
...little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...Shaft. Around that narrow hole, a community rallied to the first radio call for help, and a nation anxiously waited for word of the lost child. Drills, derricks, bulldozers and trucks were rushed to the lot from a dozen towns. Three giant cranes lumbered through Los Angeles behind police escort. Firemen ran an air hose down the well, began pumping air down by a rotary pump. A little more than an hour after Kathy's fall, a power-drill crew began to sink a shaft alongside the abandoned well. On the other side, big clamshell shovels clawed an open...