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...last week a young girl kissed the hands of an American woman and then told her story. She had been one of hundreds of suspects rounded up by police after the Poznan bread-and freedom-riots a week before (TIME, July 9). They had been herded into an airfield on the outskirts of town and forced to sleep two nights on the floor, had been fed on bread and water. "We are very, very afraid," said another of the Poles in the coffee shop...
...French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down in history as "Wrong Way Corrigan." Then five years ago, Roosevelt's history-making days seemed over; housing developments were going up all around it, and it was closed...
...Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance of the huge Wheelus Field air base near Tripoli. Wheelus Field, with its long runways, its 11,000 officers and men, is a key airfield in SAC's ring around Moscow...
...where servants pitched tents and spread rich Oriental carpets on the desert floor. Hussein organized a Royal Jordanian Automobile Club, outdrove 28 competitors around the hairpin turns of a hill-climbing course. One day he raced his light grey Mercedes-Benz 300-SL at 150 m.p.h. down the Amman airfield's best runway. "I think she could have done better," he grinned, "but the runway isn't quite long enough." At the auto club's Amman garage, Hussein spent days helping mount a Cadillac engine in a racing car chassis. "We call it the flying bedstead...
...casual with a big if. In all the Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...