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With a smile, Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita surrendered the periscope, while above him, in a watertight compartment on the forecastle deck, waited his Geta float plane. In it, he was about to become the only Japanese flyer to bomb the U.S. mainland in World War II.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: Raider's Return | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Next day, carrying the empty suitcase, they went to Eisenach, the last railway stop before the West German border. The train pulled in, and the two rushed up to the platform, got an empty compartment. Bernd opened the suitcase; Maria assumed the prenatal position-head on chest. He carefully forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Flares & Heaters. One of the most ingenious campaigns was the 1947 study of a DC-6 crash near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Several minutes before the end, the pilot reported a fire burning out of control in the baggage compartment, and that his plane was coming apart in the air. Gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

A Man Called E. The Crown's case rested on Valerie's identification. Vigorously, Hanratty's defense counsel tried to prove that she had been hysterically out of her senses the night of the murder and thus was unable to identify the murderer correctly. Taking the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Murder at Deadman's Hill | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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