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Among the seven passengers on the Philippines Air Lines DC-3 that morning was a young Chinese in a leopard-skin jacket. As the plane took off from north Luzon's Laoag Ilocos Norte airport, on the coast of the South China Sea, the passengers settled down for the routine half-hour flight to Aparri. Suddenly the plane lurched into a 45° bank. Purser Eduardo Diago came down the aisle reassuring passengers: "That was a terrific downdraft." He tried the handle of the pilot's cabin, tried again, and began hammering on the door. Then the passengers...
...dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave him one, and pretended to panic. He said O.K., look for land...
...Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
...like a fresh snort from the old jug could do worse than sample this Australian distillation. Wild Colonial Boys is written in standard Wild West prose; it begins banging almost from the start, and is still banging after more than 600 pages of close print. The blurb on the jacket says it "should be read by every Australian, for it casts a new light on our national heritage." For once, the b -----(for bloody) blurb is right...
Inside the officers' cottage set aside for him at the Kaneohe Marine Corps air station, Eisenhower shucked his tan jacket and cocoa-brown hat, changed into pink sports shirt, golf shoes and red baseball cap, and headed for Kaneohe's nine-hole Klipper golf course...