Word: hawker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockets & Autos. That sort of confidence was nothing new to 64-year-old Thomas Octave† Murdoch Sopwith. He is master of the Empire's biggest aircraft, engine and auto complex: the Hawker Siddeley Group. Its twenty-five divisions and 60,000 workers make everything from air frames for fighters and bombers to rockets, engines and luxury Siddeley automobiles for the dowager trade.* It has ?40 million in assets, 31 plants scattered throughout Britain and Canada, and last year netted ?2.6 million after taxes...
...attraction was the cigar-shaped, swept-wing Hawker P-1067 interceptor-fighter, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet and touted as the "fastest fighter in the world." To show what the P-1067 can do, Hawker's chief test pilot, Neville Duke, opened the throttle and snapped his plane low over the runway at 15 m.p.h. faster than the official world record (670 m.p.h.), held by the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre. The whip-cracking sound of its passage hit the crowd like an explosion and knocked a microphone out of an announcer's hand...
...heard Baker's French, Italian and Spanish specialties before, but when she delivered them in her big soprano with a shake of satiny shoulders and a dip of swiveled hips, the exotics were as easy to take as Tennessee Waltz. In one number, dressed as an Arab street hawker in mountainous fez and awning-striped poncho, she passed out presents of flowers and haberdashery, shook hands, hugged small fry, shared a bottle of champagne with front-row customers, all as though she were an old friend just back from a short trip abroad...
...maintain internal security. Its stubby, wiry infantrymen wear U.S. uniforms or British battle dress, carry old U.S. bolt-action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian and the Persian Gulf. The U.S., in Iran, has made no effort comparable to its military-aid program in Turkey. Granted that Iran has no such military tradition as Turkey's, a well-equipped Iranian...
...falcon does not return to its trainer's arm after making a kill, but squats on Its victim . . . until the hawker comes quietly up and lifts the falcon to his hand again. If the kill is made beyond the hawker's sight or quick reach, the hawk may gorge itself and fly off, never to be recaptured. Few falcons remain captives more than a few months...