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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty minutes off Nantucket, Pilot John Burnham, 37, checked for a weather report with Cape Cod's Otis Air Force Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair...
...been ordered into Cuban territory, but the Navy thought it had no choice. Early in June, raiders from the rebel army of Fidel Castro burned the barracks of Cuban guards at the pumping station, jeopardized the water without which most of the 6,000 U.S. citizens on the base would have to move out in 24 hours. Base Commander Rear Admiral Robert Ellis conferred with U.S. Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith, who later talked with Cuban Minister of State Gonzalo Güell. It was agreed that if Cuba could not guard the pumps, the U.S. would be allowed...
...champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players can get in on the act by giving their answers via telephone...
Since then circulation has risen, and all four founders have had to go back to the U.S. to make a living. But the Review still keeps its base in Paris, where Editor Nelson Aldrich aims at keeping the sense of immediacy that surged in past issues when the editors talked through the long Paris nights...
...part of its new look, Big Steel has brought up to date some Cro-Magnon personnel policies. More than half its 271,000 employees are paid incentive bonuses, often up to 40% over base pay. One result is that the number of man-hours needed to produce a ton of steel has decreased from about 16 in 1941 to about twelve today. One reason this was possible: in that same period U.S. Steel boosted research outlays fivefold...