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Capital also faced another turndown by CAB, this time on its petition for a $21.4 million subsidy for 1957 and 1958. Though Capital got off subsidy six years ago, it now wants Government help again, says it cannot stay aloft without a renewed dole. But CAB is not sympathetic...
...from his appearance in Oklahoma City last week for the second of his television series on national issues. From the moment of his arrival, he threw off the old popularity sparks. Riding in from Will Rogers Field in the presidential Lincoln, he stood like a campaigner with hands aloft before sign-carrying crowds ("We Liked Ike in '56. We Like Him Today"). That night at the Municipal Auditorium, he brought down the rafters with his retort to Khrushchev's threat that Russia would "bury" the West. Snapped Ike: "Oh yeah...
Radios on both Sputnik I and II are now dead, and the Russians are concentrating on optical observation. The life of Sputnik I, say the Russians, should be about three months; thus the satellite should stay aloft until the new year. Its carrier rocket, which has more air drag, will spiral down and burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle...
...usual, investigators were quick to point out that there were many other reasonable explanations for the phenomena: ball lightning, the brilliance of Venus, now entering its brightest period, the breathtaking vision of the northern lights, and, with Sputniks 1 and 11 spinning aloft, the tendency of some imaginative people to go the Russians one better. Sighed the Air Force last week: in ten years, investigators have tabulated about 5,700 "sightings," accounted for all but 2% as being strictly natural, in an earthling sense...
Died. Gianni Caproni, Count of Taliedo, 71, Italian aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...