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...over Albuquerque, Oklahoma City. St. Louis and Pittsburgh, the pilots of the twin-jet Voodoos dropped down only to 35,000 ft. for four or five refuelings at a whizzing 600 m.p.h., giving them a zooming advantage over pre-135 record seekers, who had to descend to 18,000 ft. and 250 m.p.h. to be refueled by prop-driven KC-97 tankers...
...Down with Simons." As Simons finally started to descend. Stapp detected a slur in his voice. "What is your respiration, Dave?" Stapp asked. Simons' count: a fast 44 breaths a minute. "Check your carbon dioxide," radioed Stapp. Simons' reading: the carbon dioxide in the capsule's air was an alarming 4% (3% is dangerous...
...Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from...
...exodus of 100,000 Frenchmen from Morocco and Tunisia is nothing to the problem that will be presented, both to the North Africa they leave and the France they descend on, if the Frenchmen in Algeria-one million strong-de-cide to evacuate North Africa. So far less than 1% have returned to France: the battle of Algeria is still joined, and the French are stubbornly sticking...
When I read in your April 22 issue of the Protestant invasion of Catholic Italy, I wondered why they were there at all. If they are really sincere about spreading Christianity (their form), why don't they descend on Sweden? Now there is a country that probably has the most lax moral standards of any country in the world and a country that is almost exclusively Protestant. But I have an idea that the Swedish people wouldn't take kindly to a swarm of missionaries...