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...turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could make, along with a 33-page estimate of its performance. One look was enough to persuade the Air Force to order two prototypes. When the planes were put through their tests this...
...Vadis" is colossal, all right; it's a colossal bore. M-G-M assembled a couple of dozen amiable lions, lots of chariots and other Roman go-carts, 30,000 guys in bed-sheets, and a balsa wood city, but they never did anything with the happy throng...
...England, Ecuador is on the equator, as far south of New York as Los Angeles is west. Its 3,200,000 people are mostly illiterate Indians and mestizos living under towering Andean volcanos, delving and spinning much as their ancestors did in Incaic times. Most noteworthy products: rice, bananas, balsa wood, Panama hats, shrunken heads. Most urgent needs: education, roads, earthquake damage repair, all of which President Plaza hopes to discuss this week with Washington lending authorities...
...Tilci. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa raft (TIME, April...
...Tiki. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa raft (TIME, April...