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Fortnight ago, Topper Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman packed their climbing gear and headed up 14,496-ft. Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the U.S. About 10,000 feet up, they abandoned the easy trail to the top and decided to scale Whitney's sheer, slippery 1,400-ft. east face, a cliff which had been scaled only once. They did not return...
...Base runway before she was airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...
...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...
...than before World War II. In steel the needs were greater than capacity as long as the big auto and building booms ran full tilt, but cutbacks in the civilian use of steel were coming. Home appliances would also suffer, and especially television sets, which use plenty of electronic gear. There was more natural rubber than in 1942, and synthetic plants that were either in operation or could be within a few months, but a fuller mobilization might still bring a civilian tire shortage...
...began to move along the coastal road, and her five-inchers blasted the silence. Again the firing lasted only a few minutes. Once more, eyes searched the blackness along the beach. At last came the welcome news: "Secure from general quarters." The crew members methodically secured their guns and gear, filed below to grab a few hours' sleep before dawn. The Juneau resumed its course toward North Korean waters, where there might be better targets of opportunity...