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Among those still discussing and analyzing the cause of the Lockheed Electra crash (63 dead) near Tell City, Ind. last month, there appears an ominous possibility: that the aircraft was torn apart in mid-air by a phenomenon which airmen and meteorologists have taken to calling CAT-for "clear air turbulence." If the theory proves to be true, pilots will have to find ways to keep their ships out of CAT's claws...
...later. Though the prices of such early paintings can now go up into the thousands, Mrs. Gunn had no interest in making a profit. She kept no record of her acquisitions, but instantly consigned them to the barn, where they were soon covered with filth-splattered, torn and fouled by bats and birds. What, then...
Boiled Bootstraps. Viewed in the terms of the survival manuals, the efforts of the four young Russian sailors were fairly crude. A storm on Jan. 17 had torn landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made...
...that he was asked to take the part again this year: "What ugly accusations against a play whose main theme is love!" Echoed Hans Schwaighofer, 40, who plays Judas: "As far as my interpretation of Judas goes, I shall not depict him as a villain but as a man torn between faith and disbelief, tortured by his own conscience...
...most part sustain the moods he intends. But taken a chapter or so at a time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really means what his narrator says. The newspaperman's powerful, simultaneous attraction and revulsion toward sex has left him torn by disillusion. But his humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able...