Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gleaming Douglas C-118 (DC-6) transport had no sooner touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport than U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining smacked up against newsmen's questions about the "political" significance of his visit. Said General Twining, who had journeyed to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet leaders (TIME, June 11): "I am not in the political business." He had, he said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little...
Vierne: Symphony No. 2 for Organ (Pierre Cochereau; London). Music by the late member of the French school of "symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on the wonderful organ that Vierne played for 37 years, in Notre Dame Cathedral ; its stops range from cheese-grater harshness to buttery smoothness...
...Aminophylline, a valuable drug for treatment of asthma, can be dangerous when given by mouth or intravenously. For convenience, many doctors have taken to giving it to children in rectal suppositories, but this too can be hazardous, warned Detroit's Dr. Anthony C. Nolke. In the A.M.A. Journal he reported 21 cases of severe illness (vomiting, raging thirst and maniacal agitation) and four deaths from...
...lives up to its early promise, the Crusader will be as big a boon to Chance Vought as to the Navy. Splitting off from parent United Aircraft Corp. two years ago, Chance Vought and President Frederick 0. Detweiler, 44, have been through a difficult first solo. The last of C. V.'s famed prop-driven F4U Corsairs came off the line in 1953; bugs and engine trouble held back the Corsair's successor, the big twin-jet F7U Cutlass fighter, with production scheduled to end in late 1955. Though C. V. was also producing the Navy Regulus guided...
Plastics & Ramjets. Gambling on the new Crusader, Detweiler threw most of his 2,000-man engineering force into the project. Though the first designs were approved by the Navy in May 1953, while C. V. was still under United's wing, the company had to build the plane on its own, used every trick to make sure the Crusader lived up to specifications, developed some of its own, e.g., transparent plastic fuel tanks and pipes to test the fuel flow in every conceivable position in advance. Within 22 months from the time C. V. won the design competition...