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...their voices were heard and their influence felt. Thanks to Hammarskjold's scrupulous insistence on using African, and not big-power, troops wherever possible in the Congo, the Africans recognized that the U.N. so far has kept the Congo from becoming, as Spain had once been, the hapless cockpit for a battle between giant powers. Put that way, most Africans were inclined to choose...
...cold, rarefied upper atmosphere nine miles above California's Mojave Desert, the B-52 mother ship let go of the stub-winged X-15 research plane and swung away. In his cramped cockpit, greying Test Pilot Joseph Walker, 38, flicked a series of switches, and the black needle-nosed X-15's eight rocket chambers roared into fiery life. On a high-altitude research mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Walker was not supposed to be trying for a speed record. But he pushed his plane as fast as skill could push...
...also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...
...London dentist, Moss has been driving autos since he was ten. Muscular but small-he weighs 154 lbs. and stands 5 ft. 8 in. "with my thick socks on"-he is ideally built to withstand the hours of high-speed driving in a racer's tiny cockpit. His experience has taught him every trick of handling the 250-h.p. Grand Prix cars. He can swing a car into a slide to kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand...
...with delicate languor-like a squatting seagull, too spent to fly. Its pilot seemed equally odd: a dark, aloof young man who wore a regulation flying suit and helmet but no markings, and had a revolver on his hip. Pilot Francis Gary Powers, 30, climbed into the one-man cockpit, gunned the black ship's single engine, and as the plane climbed toward take-off speed, the wide wings stiffened and the awkward outrigger wheels that had served as ground support dropped away...