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...Nathan F. Twining smacked up against newsmen's questions about the "political" significance of his visit. Said General Twining, who had journeyed to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet leaders (TIME, June 11): "I am not in the political business." He had, he said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little in the way of startling "late developments." But after the flyover he went to a banquet given by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and met the test-riotously...
...Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river and the Great Lakes it drains will be transformed into a man-made Mediterranean, on which seagoing ships can sail westward 2,300 miles into North America's heartland...
...national committee. But the memory of Philadelphia's sorry hotel accommodations at the 1948 convention lingered on, and Chicago could make no definite commitment to the G.O.P. as to the desired August date. Moreover, Republican leaders had little enthusiasm for the idea of renominating Ike in the hostile heartland of the Chicago Tribune's isolationist brand of Republicanism...
Luftwaffe must now change over to defense against the West." Two months earlier Galland had visited Augsburg and flown the revolutionary new ME 262 jet fighter. He flashed word to Goring that the new plane, with its 500 m.p.h. speed, could end air attacks on the German heartland. Hitler, in what many Western airmen would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter...
...pictures, "was particularly impressed by the city's cultural institutions" and "excellent" schools. The captions also mentioned the "well-carpentered" houses, city library, and a nursery "somewhat comparable to a U.S. nursery." Nowhere did the picture story mention that the area Salisbury was describing was in the heartland of what he now calls a "horrible stain on the face of the Russian soil and an indictment of the Russian conscience...