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Spotters can neither see nor hear bombers at extreme altitudes, which is radar's job. The spotters will specialize on attackers trying to slip, perhaps at treetop level, through gaps between the radar stations. Such attacks, says the Air Force's Air Defense Command, are a very real danger. Once a group of bombers passes the radars that watch the coasts and northern border of the U.S., it might "get loose" in the interior. Unless it should blunder into the field of a radar, the defending jet fighters would not know where to look...
...seems incredible that she should be in love with the soul of Cyrano rather than the body of Christian. There is no conflict of Flesh vs. the Soul. One gets the impression that the producers have set the stage with the conventional hero and heroine, but through some slip-up of a script writer, the wrong man gets the girl...
When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
William A. Heaman, the manager of the Dining halls, has enthusiastically announced the purchase of 500 circular trays and is about to slip them, "on trial basis," into the dining halls. We cannot share his enthusiasm...
Friday night, the woman entered Cabot Hall under the usual pretext, but was intercepted by Cabot Hall's housemother, Florence Garrish, who tried to detain the woman while students summoned police. The woman managed to slip away but was followed by three sophomores from 55 Garden Street, who attracted police to the suspects...