Word: air
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Here in Oxford all the best people read TIME every week. Your reviewer did us a disservice when he told us [Feb. 14] that Dry Guillotine was "heavy with unrelieved nightmare." I finally read it and now walk on air, feeling "What a piece of work is man!"-ish and convinced that among yeggmen, politicians, editors and college freshmen there may be-must be-something of the spirit that carried Rene Belbenoit to his goal...
Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...members of the German Reichstag in quite such an electric state of emotion as last week. For the first time since 1866 Austrian officials had their place with the Germans. Austria, now a German province, sent her Governor (not Chancellor) Arthur Seyss-Inquart to Berlin by air, dressed in the uniform of one of Dictator Hitler's Elite Guard. Austrian-born Herr Hitler was greeted by Reichstag President Göring with the words: "You conquered Austria not with bloody use of force but with your warm heart. Wounds were not inflicted-they were healed...
...Manhattan last week Derek D. Dickinson, a tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built...
Twelve years ago air force chiefs throughout the world were gripped, fascinated by Mastery of the Air, a book by Italian General of Aviation Giulio Douhet. He has since died, but Mastery of the Air has become the standard text of thousands of young air officers in every land who hold with what is called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy...