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...burly man with a magnificent R.A.F. mustache, regularly hops across the English Channel a dozen or more times a day. He longed for a longer ride. One sunup last week, Hackett took off from London Airport, got a course from his navigator, Peter Moneypenny, and aimed his twin-jet Canberra bomber westward. Seven hours and 30 minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back in London in a record...
Married. Heather Menzies, only daughter of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; and Peter Henderson, secretary at the Australian Embassy in Indonesia; in Canberra, Australia...
...Canberra, Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played to a packed house. The concert program listed Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, to be followed by Tchaikovsky. But, because of a last-minute switch in conductors, there was an unannounced change in the schedule: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony became the major work, followed by Berlioz' Hungarian March. Sibelius-whose disciplined power is poles apart from the romantic extravagance of Tchaikovsky-was off the program entirely...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...
...Fighter Command still depends for its frontier strength on a nucleus of Sabre jets, supplied by the U.S. and Canada. Britain's V-class bombers (Valiants, Vulcans and Victors) are still not operational, and to deliver its atom bombs, Bomber Command relies on the twin-engine Canberra, now officially classed as a "medium bomber." British designs are often first-rate, but British production is sluggish. The major difficulty is that the British Cabinet is still unsure how best to apportion its defense funds to meet the facts of the Hydrogen Age. "The H-bomb," confessed Sir Winston Churchill last...