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...Birds Missing. One pigeon club in nearby Phoenix has stopped all racing because of heavy losses. In one 56-bird race, it lost all the birds. Another Phoenix club still races, but its losses are increasing distressingly. Some Arizona pigeon fanciers attribute their misfortunes to secret activities at White Sands (missile) Proving Ground...
...save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill by 50%." The memo went on to outline a complicated "initial" code. Trucker John Doe, for example, would call the home office collect from Phoenix, Ariz., give his real last name and tack on fake initials, saying that "E. K. Doe is calling." The King dispatcher would thus know it was Doe, that he had reached Phoenix, and from the initials E. K., that his truck was empty. Then, naturally, the dispatcher would refuse to accept...
...touch during foreign and domestic crises. And there, for the first time, the crowd booed the President's name when Stevenson referred' to him as an honorable if misguided man ("Oh, he is an honorable man, my friends"). When Adlai flew out of Los Angeles for Phoenix, Ariz, (where a crowd of 1,500 waited until 2 a.m. to greet him at the airport), he left behind him a California Democratic organization crowing that he had a real chance to carry the state...
Bugged. In Phoenix, Ariz., Tedd Mott was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment after he got drowsy, yawned, swallowed a black widow spider...
...time Candidate Richard Nixon went back aboard his DC-6 after enduring the 92° heat in Phoenix, Ariz, last week, his face was flushed, his voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile...