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...save pilots of jet planes that falter on take-off or are disabled by enemy fire during low-flying missions, the Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Ltd. of Higher Denham, England, has developed a quick-acting parachute that works even when an airplane is still running on the ground. When the pilot triggers the mechanism, lots of things happen fast. An explosive cartridge blows the canopy off and tosses seat, pilot and all 80 feet in the air. Then an automatically timed gun opens small parachutes that steady the tumbling seat. An instant later, the timing mechanism opens the main parachute...
...same. Animal Farm is an important film, and intensely interesting to see. The voices of the animals, all spoken by Maurice Denham, are wonderfully satisfying. And Matyas Seiber's rousing anthem, Beasts of England-in which Imitator Denham sings a dozen voices at once, a roaring chorus of many sound tracks blended into one-is a proletarian hymn ("Something," as Orwell imagined, "between Clementine and La Cucuracha") that can make the most conservative heart go pitapat...
Died. Robert N. (for Newton) Denham, 68, onetime (1947-50) general counsel of the NLRB, whose ouster in 1950 climaxed a running three-year battle between Republican Denham and President Truman over the interpretation and jurisdiction of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...Repeal the law, abolish the agency, fire everybody in it, and start all over again," he expostulated. Denham pinned the failure of the Taft-Hartley Act not on the law itself, but on its administration. He said the basic principles of the act are sound, but its execution is poor...
David E. Feller, assistant general counsel to the C.I.O., disagreed with Denham, claiming that the fault was one of "a basic false premise of a statute." He said that the government had no right to regulate the terms of collective bargaining between labor and management...