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While their parents, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, were busy packing for their trip to Canada and the U.S. (see THE HEMISPHERE), the royal train carrying Princess Anne and Prince Charles home to London from Balmoral stopped at Aberdeen. The young prince decided to have a peek at the outside world, hefted his little sister to the nearest window to share the view, where a photographer got a picture of the wide-eyed little tourists...
First Prize. Like Texas, Alberta was prosperous even before its oil wells spouted their new wealth. The southern plains country, where the warm Chinook blowing off the Rockies keeps the rich range grasses clear of snow, is one of North America's great pasture lands. Its sleek, black Aberdeen-Angus, white-faced Herefords and square-built red Shorthorns provide more than a quarter of Canada's beef supply; steaks from Alberta steers are eaten as far away as Karachi, capital of Pakistan, half the circuit around the globe...
...altitude." This alarming statement came last week from an arms expert working for the Defense Department's top-level Research and Development Board. He is one of a group of arms men who spent months examining combat reports from Korea and evaluation tests at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot...
...students recommended by the various departments, are Donald R. Fagg, teaching fellow in Social Relations, of Winthrop House and Chappaqua, New York; Alan Manne '44 of Massachusetts Hall and New York City; Donald B. Meyer, teaching fellow in History, of Cambridge; and Winton U. Solberg of Conant Hall and Aberdeen, South Dakota...
Among the 30 passengers who escaped unhurt from the flaming crash of a Mid-Continent Airline Convair at Tulsa, Okla. one day last week were Dr. and Mrs. James D. Alway of Aberdeen, S.D., bound for Mexico on a vacation. Dr. Alway had been a pilot in World War I, but it was 49-year-old Mrs. Alway's first airline trip. When newsmen talked to her later, she was mainly worried because her vacation wardrobe, including a new spring coat, had been destroyed in the fire. Of her narrow escape she said simply: "My husband...