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After three weeks in the Soviet Union, the travelers were put on a Berlin-bound plane at the Moscow airport. They still had no passports except the dubious papers declaring them Soviet citizens. Bad weather grounded the plane at Kaliningrad. There MGB (secret police) officials took them off the plane...
As dawn came, field authorities started rescue parties across the fir-patched barrens. There seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather...
Boeing Aircraft Co., which made the war's biggest planes, also suffered one of its biggest ironies. Although its B-29s and B-17s carried the bulk of U.S. bombardment power, Boeing was hit harder by victory than any other plane maker. Within weeks after war's end...
Moreover: "The leaders of communistic Russia thoroughly understand the . . . philosophy . . . which underlies the traditional French and Anglo-American democracies. Knowing this, they are in a position to predict roughly how, in a given set of circumstances, we will act. . . ." He suggests that the "rest of us" acquire "a similar realism...
Dave Farrell grounded out, third to first, scoring Peterson. Neal walked putting men on first and second. Florentino kept the rally going with a scratch hit loading the bases. But Johhny Harper, the B.U. twirler, fanned Weeks, ending the inning and the game with the Terriers still out in front...