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...bibulous night in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Now her plane from Paris was over New York, whose myriad lights were so brilliant that it was as if "all the stars in the sky were rolled out over the ground." Still dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked together like two elements belonging to the same system ... I felt invisible to every look. Mine was the incognito of a phantom." Within 48 hours...
...back down the mountain. Newsmen and photographers were waiting, but he ignored them as he pulled his friend's body toward the coroner's truck. Then, turning his back on newsmen, he sprinted-down the slippery road to a friend's car and sped away...
...airplane and auto, eight Crimeds sped to the Metropolis early yesterday morning to give away yesterday's "New York Edition" at Penn Station, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and other centers of the city. New Yorkers were so starved for news they grabbed 4,000 copies in less than 20 minutes...
...winter morning in 1939, a harried artist packed a portrait into his station wagon and headed for Manhattan. As the car slithered down the slippery lane, one of the doors jounced open and snagged a roadside pine. The door was left behind dangling on the tree as the car sped...
...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...