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...from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead of Capt. Hawks...
...Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
...woman, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, 57, wealthy socialite of New York and Washington; her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., 26; and an enlisted man named E. J. Lord. Mrs. Fortescue, composed and smiling, sat on the roadside until more police arrived as an escort back to Honolulu where Albert Orrin Jones, a second enlisted man, was also taken into custody. The great siren atop Aloha Tower shrieked a general alarm to the National Guard...
...first time since the Revolution Spanish troops paraded in dress uniform. Tousle-haired President Zamora rode down the Calle de Alcala through the city to the former Royal Palace, with a clattering escort of silver-cuirassed Presidential Guards. He was followed by blue-clad naval cadets, red-trousered regulars. Basque Miquelitos with pantaloons and scarlet berets, the khaki-clad Foreign Legion, Moorish cavalry in white bournouses, and the yellow-belted, shiny-hatted guardia civil. Even the sappers joined the parade, proudly carrying pontoons and bridge parts. The air force added a final touch. Squadrons of planes flew overhead scattering...
...Plaza, meanwhile, were congregated some 1,600 "hunger marchers" who had trucked into the capital from the North and Mid-West by Communist leaders for demonstration purposes (TIME, Dec. 7). These tatterdemalions, a forlorn, hollow-eyed crew of whites and blacks, paraded under police escort singing...