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...bluebonnets spread their rich, bright cloak over the low hills. By midmorning at the L.B.J. Ranch, the winter-paled body of a weary man was slung in a canvas hammock, as the soothing strains of a Strauss waltz were wafted from a hi-fi speaker in a nearby live oak tree. Overhead, at the top of a 60-ft. pole, three flags billowed in the breeze: the Stars and Stripes, the Lone Star of Texas, and a blue standard with five stars and the initials L.B.J., which informed the world that the proprietor was in residence...
...lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted somebody in those tanks who could talk fighter pilot lingo." Quesada chalked up 90 combat missions before war's end, went home with the Distinguished Service Medal, Air Medal with two Silver Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, etc., and a drawerful of assorted foreign decorations. He also went home with his facility for the flippant still intact. Once he landed his 6-26 onto an icy airstrip at Long Island's Mitchel Field, skidded the length of the runway, up an embankment, across...
Crusty. Near Olive Branch, Miss., hanging helplessly from the top of an oak tree after parachuting out of a disabled Air Force plane, Airman Third Class Maxwell S. Prothro pleaded with a staring farm wife to bring rescuers, was told: "I'm busy. I'm cooking bread...
...small amount of solvent exploded and blew open the door of a processing cell at the AEC's Oak Ridge laboratory. About one-fiftieth of an ounce of plutonium was scattered into the air. Last week the AEC reported on what it took to tidy up this minor atomic mishap...
...about in a set of high-ceilinged rooms in which the light seems to have died long ago. The drawing room is her workshop and, since she does not know how to handle what she calls with distaste "a typing machine," she writes in longhand at a heavily scrolled oak desk, flanked by the ornate and the austere. Gilt chairs and pedestals topped with alabaster vases rest on bare, creaky floor boards while heavy gilt mirrors stare at the half-empty room...