Word: crackups
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...plane pilot who has had a crackup needs a cooling-off period; if he takes off promptly on another flight, he is very likely to crack up again. That unnerving news was reported in the Journal of Aviation Medicine by an A.A.F. medical safety officer, Dr. Daniel Horn, who has been looking at the statistics on Army pilots...
...French crisis was twofold-economic and political. With the country facing economic crackup (TIME, Sept. 22), Premier Paul Ramadier's Cabinet met five times last week. Each time the ministers separated without having found a solution. The crisis was directly caused by France's inability to pay for basic imports (coal, wheat, gasoline and fats...
...dark, wind-lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they are warned off by bullets. When Farmer Robinson's sister (Judith Anderson) is killed, his mind goes to pieces and so, to some extent, does an otherwise good movie. But in the course of his mental crackup, Robinson does explain why the door of the Red House should have stayed shut...
...from a jeep, the creaking, beaten-up bomber struggled into the air. Then a "mother plane" took its controls by radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud's effect upon planes...
Clearly the German Army was in the stage of panicky crackup before final disintegration. This week the U.S. War Department announced the total of Germans captured by the western Allies since Dday...