Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...
...briefing had run behind schedule, the flap and undercarriage buttons were close together. Said Kenyon: "I have no political or religious views; I gave that reason merely because I was dreadfully worried over my tragic mistake. It was far better, I thought, to say I had intentionally caused the Canberra damage rather than to say I had made a mistake and was incompetent." The prosecutor, pointing out that Kenyon by his own admission had been unable to sleep or eat for days, charged that Kenyon had wrecked his plane out of simple fear...
...vacations was spoiled a little by shop talk about executions. After Evdokia and Vladimir were married in 1940, they were an enviable and well-adjusted husband-and-wife team in the world's bloodiest police force. What went wrong with their lives? Posted to the Soviet embassy in Canberra, the Petrovs never had it so good. With his pay as colonel in the MVD-plus her pay as captain-they made $18,550, more than the salary of the Australian Prime Minister. But in contrast to the loose, shirt-sleeved, friendly Australian society, the Petrovs lived a life between...
...decisions." no one who finds those decisions unpleasant feels obliged to listen. Three weeks ago. attempting to justify to the House of Commons Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French troops from the U.N. Emergency Force, said with bitter sarcasm: "It won't be easy ... to establish an international force of two battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That...
...continuing interest in astronomy he explains as "the satisfying your curiosity, the wanting to know," and at Canberra he will again be seeking knowledge in "the most interesting parts of the sky," for some of the more complex aspects of the Milky Way are only visible in that hemisphere. Much of the thrust of his earlier work had been on the galactic structure and dynamics of the southern Milky...