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...began as a routine rescue operation. Within 24 hours after an Air Force C-47 disappeared over Greenland's bleak south coast, search planes spotted the crash, 100 miles north of the Air Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...
...last week tall, skinny Isachar Combs and Patrolman Lewis Deaton locked up three men. One of them had a pint of moonshine which he said he had got from Bryan Middleton, 48, who ran a restaurant in Evarts. Combs and Deaton got a search warrant and walked over to Middleton's restaurant...
...gets in a jam, Calamity stands patiently behind him and plugs his enemies. In time, this leads to a scene that Hope plays with all the zest of a bear in a honey tree: Painless, convinced that he is the town tough guy, swaggering through the saloons in search of the fellow who really is tough...
...search had been thrown off because the rafts had drifted so rapidly southwest after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
...embassy in Caracas quickly set the matter straight. Colonel Adams had visited both the Ministry of National Defense and Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup, but his sole purpose was to get information about Lieut. Colonel Frank P. Bender, U.S. air attache, overdue on a search mission for a lost U.S. Army plane...