Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico, last week, crack crews in green-marked B-29s competed for the honor of dropping the fourth atomic bomb. Their target runs were secret, lest sharp-eyed newsmen guess too much. Not so secret was the test flight of an ancient, radio-controlled B17. Guided by radio impulses 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...
...according to official U.S.S.R. figures, 99.7% of the people qualified to vote in the U.S.S.R. actually did vote. And 99.18% of them voted for the Communist and nonparty bloc that is in power. Speculating on the reception abroad of the news . . . Pravda continues: 'It is not difficult to guess that the results . . . came as an extremely unpleasant surprise to those who had hoped for a weakening of the solidarity of the Soviet people and those who do not relish Soviet democracy...
...statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., whose business it is to guess right about people's health, came to some discouraging conclusions about diabetes...
...correspondents. Last week the Navy had already heard from 3,500 press, radio and newsreel people who want to cover the atomic bomb tests in the Pacific (TIME, Feb. 11). Said the Navy sternly: there will be room for not more than 150 on the press ship. Safe guess: no women allowed...
...Crimes Commission, his evenings at his barracks, studying. He and his buddies had been refused service at a post exchange, ordered out of movies by usherettes, insulted, threatened with knives. Said Staff Sergeant Hayashi: "I just don't try to mix any more. I guess these people don't know...