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Seniors, their guests, dates, and parents will leave Lamont Library at 8 p.m. for the annual cruise on the S.S. Boston Belle. Accompanied by a special motorcycle escort provided by the local police, the buses will proceed to the Belle's pier for an evening of water-bound wining and dancing...
...Abomb) to match most World War II medium bombers. The engine is a Wright J-65 turbojet (7,200 Ibs. of thrust), and though its speed is a tightly guarded secret, experts say it can outrace Russia's latest-model MIG interceptors, make its way home without escort...
...complicated explosive mechanism needed to blast it up over the tail. By making the plane smaller all around, Heinemann has been able to eliminate the heavy, wing-folding mechanisms of most Navy planes. Thus, the Hot-Rod can fit into any carrier elevator with wings outstretched, fly off any escort carrier's short deck...
...President's mother was born and lived until she was a young woman. In a light drizzle, the presidential plane Columbine set down at Richmond's Byrd Airport. Governor Thomas Stanley and a score of Virginia dignitaries were on hand to meet the Eisenhowers and to escort them to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where the Richmond Light Infantry Blues were lined up in full dress uniform with plumed shakos. The Blues, an ancient and aristocratic National Guard outfit, were celebrating their 165th anniversary, and Old Soldier Eisenhower had agreed to attend church services with them...
...fell to Henderson and Ruck to meet the Mau Mau chiefs and escort them, under safe conduct, to talks with Major General George Heyman, the British chief of staff. The two policemen drove their jeeps deep into murderland. One big parley was ruined by sheer heavyhandedness. Major General Heyman arrived, but as the army communiqué put it, "the Mau Mau representatives came within a few hundred yards but something frightened them off." The "something" was 1,800 British and African infantrymen, poured into the area to protect the British brass...