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...landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle between wing and fuselage, the huge flaps will turn the wing into an almost perfect triangle with 25% more area than it has in high-speed flight and three times its normal lift...
...dancing a stately minuet, Macmillan seemed to advance toward Europe one minute, then twirl and step backward the next. Was he being too cautious? "Forever Amber," sniffed the Liberal Party's peppery Lady Violet Bonham Carter, echoing the growing criticism of Mac's leadership in general. The British public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak...
...Most Rev. James Conleth Ryan, 48, a balding, six-foot-two, ebullient, Chicago-born Franciscan, the fishermen of Santarém are the elite among the 150,000 people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
...Khrushchev there was the longstanding and probably more formidable threat from another Stalinist, Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who has challenged Khrushchev's dogma of "peaceful coexistence." Some observers credit Mao with forcing Khrushchev into more belligerence than he considered wise in Cuba and Laos. In backward Outer Mongolia, the Russians and Chinese are in active competition (see below). Mao has made it clear that he deplores the Vienna conference...
...Germany with $364 million. The boost reflects President Kennedy's own long advocacy of Indian aid during his Senate days, plus Nehru's persuasive argument that his country is not only the world's biggest democracy, but also contains a third of the world's backward people. It will bring to nearly $5 billion the U.S. aid to India since 1951, v. Russian aid of roughly $800 million...