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...last week took some of the wraps off its new entry in the lightweight jet plane race. Called the XF-104 by the Air Force and the "Gee-Whizzer" by Lockheed, the new ship is a small, relatively simple day fighter designed to win local air superiority over the battlefield. Its weight is only about 14,000 Ibs. combat-loaded v. 18,000 for North American's F-86D, but it packs a hefty Curtiss-Wright J-65 engine, blasting out more than 7,200 Ibs. of thrust. The speed is secret. Officially, the Air Force will say only...
...with 75,000 men, had begun an invasion of the North after victory at Chancellorsville in May, confident that a decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line...
...cyclorama on the following pages, representing the climax of Pickett's charge, is housed in a special building at the Gettysburg battlefield. Painted in 1881 by French Artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, it is 30 ft. high and 370 ft. in circumference. The view is from behind the Union front line, and as the viewer looks along the painting toward the right, it is as though he is turning from north to east, then toward the south and finally west...
Citation: "A native son of the land of the Reformation, and a 20th century example of what he calls the 'Protestant principle' . . . The product of a Lutheran parsonage, he has served his fellow men on the battlefield, in the pulpit, and in the lecture halls . . . He is at one with the skeptical, the lonely, the empty-hearted contemporary man, and yet he speaks out of the assurance of faith...
There was confusion and there was calculated delay. When the Communists finally agreed to a conference including the three Associated States (Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) provided the Communist Viet Minh were invited, and agreed to discuss a battlefield truce at the conference, Bidault discovered that no representatives of the three Associated States were on hand (he had not bothered to discuss the situation with them seriously before going to Geneva...