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...BUCKLEY MAC-GURRIN...
...White House rushed through a promotion to rear admiral for retired Navy Commander Donald B. MacMillan, 79, whose first Arctic expedition, with Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary in 1908-09, was prevented from being his last by Peary, who warmed Captain Mac's wet feet against Peary's own body to keep them from freezing. After his promotion, Rear Admiral MacMillan shoved off from...
...French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
After 7½ hours of wrangling, the Israelis demanded a formal condemnation of Jordan. The deciding vote of the five on the Mixed Armistice Commission was Commander Hutchison's. "I abstain," he said slowly. The investigators for MAC, added Hutchison, "worked almost beyond endurance to establish the guilt. Even so, the evidence is far from conclusive." The Israelis rose, announced that they would no longer participate in the commission and stalked...
...most of the science fiction writers seem to do, passions seem to run as high in space as in any pulp magazine: "There was a crooning, dangerous, hypnotic quality to the voice--and yet it was warm and sweet, like mrfii-honey flowing over the lichen rocks of Phobos. Mac Marty felt his pulse quicken." There are also adverse affects of mating on distant planets, but only villains are susceptible. "Lucia's baby was born. The baby came at night. It did not live more than a few hours. But it shone in the dark...