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...about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days at sea, they had put in at Wilmington, N.C., and been shipped by train to New York...
...went back but she only stayed until midnight. She had to drive the Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
...circus aboard the ancient, 145-foot Honduran ship Euzkera, then took a plane to Cartagena to see to Colombian bookings and the house in Bogotá. The Euzkera had only two cabins. But the 46 members of the troupe managed somehow, even with all their animals and gear...
...took four months of bureaucratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. Last week, an official buff-colored envelope flopped on to Alfred's doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...