Word: austerities
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...dead-calm day in Sydney last week, Student Pilot Anthony Thrower, practicing take-offs and landings at Bankstown airport, stalled the engine of his light Auster plane a few feet from the ground, but made the landing safely, brakes on-he thought. Deciding to start his engine unaided, he advanced the throttle, jumped out of the cockpit and swung the prop. To his surprise, as the engine started, the plane began to move. Thrower grabbed a wing strut, but was unable to hold the plane; it roared downfield, took off and began circling the airport at a height...
Airport officials suddenly realized that the Auster, trimmed for flight and with a tank full of gas, might cause trouble. Sydney's Civil Aviation authorities were alerted. Radio warnings were broadcast, incoming airliners were warned, while police, firemen, ambulances and air force crash boats stood by. Tens of thousands of Sydneysiders came out to gape with delight as the plane climbed to 6,000 ft. and dipped seaward...
...Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie's classical auster-ty caused some shifting and dozing. And the Sowerby piece, full of modern dissonances, caused some grumbling. But the critics were respectful...
Round the Bend. In a rented, 100-h.p. Auster monoplane scarcely bigger than his World War I Sopwith Camel, the Mad Major climbed to 500 ft. over the City of London. It was lunch time, and, as he could see through the upper frames of his bifocals, Thameside was black with people. Suddenly he sent the little silver Auster hurtling out of the sun, straight for Blackfriars Bridge. Girls screamed, bowler hats ducked, but, with inches to spare, the Mad Major leveled out, missed Blackfriars, and with wheels brushing the water, skimmed upstream towards Waterloo Bridge. Between the water...
...foreseen, Israel bitterly defied the U.N. action. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett announced that his government would never give up Jerusalem: "To the Jewish people [Jerusalem] has been and is the very heart-the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings . . ." Jerusalem's Israeli Mayor Daniel Auster warned: "We shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services...