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...money we're after," Britain's army and air force warmed up. The first man, Army Captain R. M. ("Red Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash...
...French Air Force Dakota touched down one day last week at the Royal Air Force fighter base of Biggin Hill, near London. Out stepped a tired-looking Frenchman with a fat diplomatic briefcase. Pierre Mendès-France, Premier of France, was familiar with Biggin Hill: under very different circumstances he had visited it during World War II, as a navigator in a Free French bomber squadron...
...attaché at the French embassy in London. "You once confined me to quarters for ten days," Mendès said, recognizing him. "It was 14 days," the colonel replied. "You proceeded on a mission without orders." A rotund, familiar figure with a cigar was also on hand at Biggin Hill. Sir Winston Churchill, 79, who had driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then the old British bulldog and the spry little Frenchman drove off in Churchill...
ENGINEERING 3E.- Lecture on Friday, Feb. 18, at 11.00, in Eng. Lab. Bring "Modern Stone Cutting and Masonry," by Siebert and Biggin...
ENGINEERING 3E.- Lecture on Friday, Feb. 18, at 11.00, in Eng. Lab. Bring "Modern Stone Cutting and Masonry," by Siebert and Biggin...