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...unbuckled his seat and shoulder harnesses, scooted up from his seat in the nose to the crawlway, opened a hatch and squeezed into the floodlighted bomb bay. There the big bomb-SACmen call it a "pig"-hung from its single shackle. Cautiously, Kulka tried to slide a big steel pin through the shackle to hold the pig in case the electrical lock let go. The bomb began to wobble. Desperately, Kulka worked...
...years ago, his chief claim to fame was as a high-jump star (6 ft. 5½ in.) at San Francisco State College. The son of a chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several months before it began lighting boards...
...stopped rehearsals because he kept hearing noises on the set. "I can't go on," he complained. "There's too much talking." Said a technician: "That guy-he'll say he can't hear lines right next to him, but he can hear a pin drop on the other side...
...enthusiastic about Pouser in particular, who, he claims, is better in the standing position than any other Harvard wrestler in his recollection. Pouser, who wrestled at Governor Dummer, scored a pin in the Yardlings' 26 to 5 win over Dartmouth, and against M.I.T., he gained a decision over Tech's best...
...would not be cut off. Warned former Canadian External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson: "Any further restrictions on Canadian imports into the U.S. would make further defense cooperation more difficult." The Canadian press seconded him. The conservative Toronto Telegram's Washington Correspondent James M. Minifie snapped: "Are safety-pin assembly lines closing down? Jack up the protection. Who cares about friends...