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...reached his target he was flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...
...Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
...will not be able to keep Europe democratic or free if we and the British pull out. Europe this summer, and for a long time to come, will be too wartorn, too weak, too submissive, too morally bankrupt and too chaotic to stand on its own feet. Democracy must be encouraged and preserved-if necessary against a background of power. Or are we ready to despair and to give Europe over to the Titos...
...rocky coast of Maine one night last week a group of fishermen gathered to watch a lighthouse keeper pull a switch. When he did, famed Portland Head Light, which the war had darkened for the first time since George Washington's day, once again threw its guiding light some 30 miles out over the sea. The fishermen noted it with appreciative nods; in Portland Harbor the whistles blew a hoarse chorus of applause...
...research center in Hillersleben a group of them were solemnly laying plans for a "space station" 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" would have the whole earth at its mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil...