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...take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar...
...city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition, the Administration was able to 1) get a good man, and 2) reward Teddy McKeldin, "the man who nominated Ike," with his first high-level Washington patronage...
...shall have to let the P.W.s know their owners don't want them." At midnight, Jan. 22, the Indian guards withdrew from the pro-Communist compound, leaving the P.W.s with a week's supply of food, which the Reds fore-handedly provided for them. Later that week, the Red rigmarole began. The P.W.s skated gracefully upon frozen paddies...
...find from Buffalo Run to Pocomoke City. A third candidate, Thomas D'Alesandro, Democratic National Committeeman and mayor of Baltimore, announced his candidacy for governor last August, but slipped behind when his son was implicated in a teen-age vice scandal. Last week D'Alesandro withdrew from the race...
...Milwaukee, "when the district attorney . . . attempted to ban three well-known novels by personal edict ... he finally withdrew his ban under heavy fire from the Milwaukee Journal and citizens of the city...