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...earlier ones except for the absence of the disguised code numbers, asked questions concerning the income of the student's family, his dress habits, and his campus possessions. The numbers were stamped on with white ink on the reverse side of the polls and were barely visible in daylight...
Southern Methodist: "It is not unknown to see SMU students letting nature take its full course in the back of automobiles, in daylight, on the college campus...
Latest Fashions. The Air Force is not alone. In spite of firm squelching, flying saucer stories have not died. They have changed somewhat with time; the first ones reported, sighted near Mt. Rainier in 1947, were round and shiny, and they flew in daylight with no unusual maneuvers. The saucer-conscious public duly reported many more like them. Then the fashion changed when two airline pilots told about seeing, near Montgomery, Ala. one night, an enormous, wingless, cigar-shaped craft with glowing portholes...
Mazes & Honeycombs. Even briefing officers are beginning to call it the "twilight war." During the past two months, the battle of Korea has become a war of deeply entrenched positions, of night patrols and occasional daylight raids, of sporadic and usually short artillery duels...
Superior Plane. The details were even gloomier. The MIGs have inflicted punishing losses on daylight raids, have forced U.S. bombers to operate almost entirely at night and singly. "In many respects," Vandenberg admitted, "the MIG can out perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with...