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...Force. Air Commandos, proud of their Anzac-style hats, live in a strange world of seemingly obsolete aircraft: the B-26 bomber, T-28 trainer, slow C46 and C-47 cargo-troop planes. Instead of supersonic jets, they have the U-10 monoplane, which can slow to 30 m.p.h. without stalling, is ideal for dropping leaflets or broadcasting by loudspeaker to villagers. Says one Commando officer: "A loudspeaker is a lot cheaper than...
...launch seemed so routine that only a few bird watchers turned out at the Cape Canaveral pad. And as the Thor-Delta rocket rose above the southern morning, the Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists who had built its cargo followed its course with rising confidence. Satisfied at last that their latest communication satellite, Telstar II, was in proper orbit, they put through a telephone call to their space communication station at Andover, Maine. "She's all yours. Go play with her!" It was hardly the type of space spectacular that President Kennedy warned would soon be touched off by Soviet...
...when Communist China built its biggest freighter, the 11,182-ton ship was christened-naturally-Yueh Chin, or the S.S. Leap Forward. With almost as much fanfare as when she was launched, the Leap Forward sailed from Tsingtao last week with the first cargo shipped from China to Japan since the two countries signed a recent trade agreement ending their five-year official boycott of each other's goods. Then, half way across the East China Sea one afternoon last week, the Leap Forward suddenly radioed for help. Four hours later, the pride of China's merchant fleet...
...free ports. Main source was Singapore, where De Mel's bluejackets had joyously laid in 100 cases of Grant's Scotch, 25 cases of other brands of whisky, plus cases of rum, gin, brandy, champagne and beer, intended for disposal back home. Investigators added that the hot cargo also included crated refrigerators, hi-fi sets, transistor radios, furniture, rare Hong Kong vases and gold bangles-most, unfortunately, confiscated by Ceylon authorities after the fleet dropped anchor upon its return...
...service, the brightest blue yonder may be a job with a commercial airline. And so it seemed, in 1957, to Captain Marlon D. Green. Green was a highly qualified pilot; in his nine years in the Air Force, he had logged 3,071 hours in multi-engine bombers and cargo planes. When he resigned from the Air Force, Green applied to at least ten U.S. airlines for a pilot's position. He was turned down by all. For Marlon Green is a Negro...