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...Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with her 72-year-old ranch foreman...
Junior Fellow Cord Meyer will address an open meeting of the World Federalists at 7:30 p.m. tonight on the relation of world federalism to present day American foreign policy. The meeting will be held in Phillips Brooks House...
...Cord Meyer, Jr., past president of the United World Federalists, will offer his suggestions for the future and present his opinion of how some problems of peace might be met. This lecture is also scheduled...
Then Columbia President Eisenhower, speaking in Manhattan, pulled the cord and fired the shot that made Washington sit up. "America has already disarmed," he said, "to the extent, in some directions even beyond the extent, that I, with deep concern for her present safety, could possibly advise, until we have certain knowledge that all nations, in concerted action, are doing likewise...
...umbilical cord connecting these two airplanes is a refueling device recently developed by Boeing Airplane Co. Most refueling of airplanes from flying "tankers" has been done by a flexible hose which the airplane must catch and attach. Because the old system has many disadvantages, Boeing switched to this rigid, tubular "boom" that swings below the tail of the tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom...