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...that contingency it will be nice to have a man on the spot. There is also, of course, that inevitable day when their man in Havana runs afoul of the authorities for the last time and is sent home. Then, perhaps, he may have quite a story to spin...
...script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that weave to meet and then spin off, that hover overhead and fly away, huge, birdlike, into deeper inextricable dark...
...free world's firepower. "You must convince the enemy that no matter what he does, he will be destroyed," says Power. "That is deterrence." The son of Irish immigrants, Power was born in Great Neck, N.Y. He fell in love with the air at 20, after a spin in a Flying Jenny, skipped college to attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929. A bomber man from the first, he was assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa...
...storm season. Her wild dance subsided to a gale-force pirouette, then suddenly spun back to hurricane size at week's end. Though she finally seemed headed out to sea, Arlene's sisters* may even now be waiting in the wings. But when they begin their destructive spin toward the U.S. East Coast, they will be met by a group of storm-killing scientists who hope to learn how to stop them...
Next job was to spin the satellite so that its radio antenna would point at the earth. Other peroxide jets were fired and the antenna swung toward its target. The movement also increased the satellite's westward drift, and at midweek Syncom II was over Africa, oscillating back and forth across the equator in a lazy figure eight...