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High-level Washington hummed with the rumor that the U.S. had picked up new aerial samples of a second Russian superbomb explosion-a blast which, said the rumor, indicated that the Soviet Union may well have found a short cut to a superbomb that is smaller and more easily delivered than...
...Paris, Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali, looking pretty surrealistic himself, was persuaded to exhibit his newly elongated waxed mustache. To nobody's surprise, Dali explained that his latest creation served a real function: "It is like an aerial, stretching out to capture genius and inspiration, pointing to heaven like the spires of a cathedral...
...talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week at New York University, she studies aerial navigation, has soloed an Aeronca but has still to get her pilot's license. On the ground, in the kitchens of the U.S., she has no trouble finding her way around. "American tastes," says Clem, "are moving toward greater simplicity. Now one really good dish plus a good vegetable...
...rear of the aerial train, Flying Boxcar No. 29 dropped out of formation in the turbulent air-probably because of engine or propeller trouble. It nosed down and glided full into a "stick" of floating paratroopers from the plane ahead. Dented and damaged by the impact of their bodies, it slid down in a long death dive and vanished behind the pine tops. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane...
Even so, it was little more than an aerial curio?a compromise between an airplane and a true helicopter. Conventional-aircraft engineers felt that the long, painful struggle to produce a direct-lift machine was simply proof that the practical helicopter was an impossibility. Sikorsky did not agree. He had never ceased thinking about rotor-machines in all the 30 years since building his first. While workmen at the Sikorsky plant goggled and shook their heads, Sikorsky began flailing the air with a stationary test device made from the transmission of an old Ford, a motorcycle engine, and a single...