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Ouimet smacked the ball crisply, 170 yards straight down the fairway, and an antique cannon beside the tee boomed a salute. It was the traditional "driving in" ceremony, performed each year-but not always so well-by the elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient, golf's oldest and holiest shrine. Francis Ouimet, onetime caddy from the wrong side of Boston's tracks, was the first American ever elected captain...
Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...
...Delegate Cavendish Cannon began by proposing English, as well as French and Russian, as an official conference language. Vishinsky remarked that most of the participants "loved and understood the Russian language," and by a simple majority vote of his stooges, that was that. Then Vishinsky offered a treaty which assured Russian control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm. The three Western powers protested. Vishinsky snapped: "The door was open for you to come in; the same door is open...
...Iliushin). Three-or four-place, twin-jet medium bomber. Speed, about 600 m.p.h.; range, around 2,000 miles; bombload, unknown, but a Red navy version has been fitted to carry a torpedo. Armament, two 37-mm. cannon in the nose, twin 12.7-mm. machine guns in side, top and tail turrets...
...Tupolev). Direct copy of the U.S. B29. Speed, about 400 m.p.h.; range, 4,000-5,000 miles; bombload, 10,000 Ibs.; armament, 10-20-mm. cannon in four turrets. Tupolev has also built a long-nosed version of the B29, which some observers at the Aviation Day show mistook fora...