Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Army's case against the three-compiled from the testimony of hundreds of loyal ex-P.W.s-looked substantial enough, there was some doubt about the Army's right to try them. Technically, Bell, Cowart and Griggs are civilians-dishonorably discharged from the Army at the time they, and 18 other American turncoats, turned their backs on their homeland and families and disappeared into Red China. But since 1950, the armed forces have claimed the right to seize and court-martial civilians for major crimes committed while in military service. The legality of that claim...
...conviction of Bascom Giles is only the beginning of the scandals trouble for Texas politicians. So far, 21 people, including Democratic Congressman John J. Bell, have been indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...
Reports from the instruments can be sent to earth by radio telemetering. The transmitter may get its power from the fierce sunlight of space, perhaps using the silicon solar batteries perfected by Bell Telephone Laboratories (TIME, July...
...kept turning fast enough to keep the compressors working. In Franz's turbine, the two functions are independent; one turbine drives the propeller, a second powers the compressors, lowering fuel consumption and increasing the plane's speed. First aircraft slated to use the XT-53 turbine: Bell's small XH-4O Army helicopter, with a designed cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. (compared to 70 m.p.h. for similar piston-engine copters...
...Just 14 hours and 37 minutes after she waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...