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...often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...
...Attlee asked was barbed: "In view of the statements which were made by the present Prime Minister on the absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement has the Prime Minister's consent?" There was a roar of delight from the Labor benches; Churchill looked hurt. Slowly he rose, and the House fell quiet. He spread his arms wide and said simply: "I am convinced that it is absolutely necessary...
...this, cries of "hear, hear " rose to a roar from the Labor benches; the Tories responded only desultorily. In the brief debate the Tories were uneasy and reticent. To a demand for more details, Eden responded with the weary patience of a worried nursemaid to a pestering child, begging his questioners to avoid pessimism until the full texts were published. To Eden's embarrassment the most lavish praise came from the Bevanites...
...mother who sleeps through the roar of an airplane overhead but leaps up at the first little whimper from her baby is not necessarily sleeping less soundly or restfully than her husband. Impulses from the higher brain centers are "fired back" to the waking center, and the mother has conditioned herself to respond only to certain ones...
...engineers watched, the 707 's four jets started up with a low whine that rose to a scream, then a roar. The engine tests took three days. Then the chocks were pulled from the wheels, and the big plane rolled down the runway, circled and rolled back again, swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston...