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This year he tried again with his new light airplane, an Ercoupe. At first he wanted to use frozen Lake Mendota, near Madison, for his circular runway, but the city council said no. Last fortnight he set up his apparatus on the ice of Lake Kegonsa, a safe distance from Madison. The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly. A double strand of woven nylon, 400 ft. long, led to a quick-release fixture under a wing of the airplane...
...under economic pressures, Japan should feel forced to accept political arrangements with the Communist mainland," said U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at Bangkok last fortnight, "that would surely have a grave effect upon the entire free world position in Asia. All of us know what it meant to combat Japan alone ... If there should be combined at any time under international Communism the power of Soviet Russia in Asia, of Communist China, and the industrial capability of Japan-if all three were a unit of force, then, I think, we must recognize that our position . . . would be extremely...
Another such controversy flared in New Mexico. It began last fortnight when Attorney General Richard H. Robinson denounced as "constitutionally objectionable" the weekly nondenominational devotional meetings held by pupils at the high school in Roswell (pop. 25,000). Argued Robinson: "Church and state must be kept separate ... [In Roswell], the students know that on Wednesday morning at 8:15, religious services will be held upon their public-school grounds. Their principal has so announced on Tuesday . . . That there is no direct duty to attend may not be an answer [to the question of legality...
...advance toward the long-debated, often-despaired-of goal of lining up the West Germans with the West. Both sides in the cold war had labeled the German vote a point of no return, and the Communists threatened retribution should the decision go against them. But in a speech fortnight ago, Foreign Minister Molotov prepared himself a retreat by distinguishing between the "ratification" and the "implementation" of German rearmament. Molotov apparently anticipated that the Paris accords could not be prevented from becoming law, had swallowed his defeat and had begun to prepare for the next effort to delay and demoralize...
...Cuba last fortnight agreed to deliver 200,000 tons of sugar to Russia for $12 million. Though the price was low (3.05? a Ib. v. the 3.17? world price), Cubans were overjoyed, would gladly accept similar out-of-the-blue orders for the 860,000-ton sugar surplus that is still left...