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Nevertheless, the Senate is expected to confirm him, so that headless CAB can get to work again. Last week the Senate confirmed Harold A. Jones, 50, Los Angeles lawyer and World War I Marine pilot, thus filling the other vacancy on the five-man board...
...Christianized, the temple was turned into a church; the Christians chiseled off the heads & feet of the ancient, carved gods (works of the devil) and covered them with mud. Now the Chicago diggers are picking off the mud, almost grain by grain, and finding beneath it the ancient gods, headless and footless, but otherwise almost as clear and devilish...
...observed a simple (but useful) political fact: the men who are capable of governing and guiding a nation are, even in big countries, a comparatively small group. Destroy them and you have decapitated a country; after that, any political gangster with a gun in his hand can rule the headless nation as he likes...
...piece of metal in a blackened hand-it was presumed to be that of the plane's captain, William E. Coney of Miami, wartime pilot of the Navy's famed flying boat Mars and one of Eastern's best. Two other bodies were easily identified-a headless mother who still pressed her headless child against her breast. But in most cases the only sure identifying clue was to be found in dental work...
...legends told about the Northwest's Nahanni (Headless) Valley (TIME, Jan. 20) stirred up so much interest that the Vancouver Sun sent out its own explorers for a first-hand look. By last week the accounts of the travelers, Reporter Pierre Berton and Photographer Art Jones, had, to the surprise of no one, thoroughly shattered all the fantastic folklore of Headless Valley...