Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to skyside gossip, two new experimental rocket planes are being built for the Air Force. One is the Bell X2, an improvement on the X1, in which Test Pilot Chuck Yeager first flew faster than sound (TIME, April 18, 1949). The X2, rumored for a long time, may be ready for testing this year. Current guesses give it a top speed of 2,500 m.p.h., at an altitude of 200,000 ft. (38 miles). Even more radical is the X3, which Douglas is said to be developing. Powered with a ramjet and a rocket motor as well...
Presiding over the debates on a new constitution, Auriol was in his element. Scrubby mustache bristling, his face grown plumper and pinker from exertion, Auriol would ring his little bell passionately as the debate grew stormy, calling, "Messieurs . . . MESSIEURS...
FROM Athens, TIME'S Jim Bell Reported...
...Victorian squire's spinster daughter will continue to go to church. But "no Labor people will go. . . because going to church means you are Conservative. The bell-ringers may continue because of the pleasure of ringing and because they admire Winston Churchill. The schoolmistress will not go . . . because being semi-educated and class-conscious, she has 'theories' about religion and regards the parson as too dogmatic...
Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 40, successful dabbler in radio and writing ; and Mrs. Minnewa Bell Ross, 39, California heiress (oil, real estate); both for the fourth time; at Miami Beach...