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Last week all the services, especially the Army and Marines, were demanding more helicopters. But they still remembered the helicopter's handicaps: lack of range and speed. Many experts believe that the ideal aircraft for assault, supply and evacuation will be a "convertiplane": a hybrid that takes off as a helicopter, flies like an airplane, then drifts down to land like a helicopter again. Last April, the Department of Defense announced development contracts for convertiplanes to Bell, Sikorsky and McDonnell Aircraft Corporations. A fourth manufacturer, Gyrodyne Co. of America, which has no contract, claims that its convertiplane...
Author Stone follows this career with painstaking accuracy from log cabin to White House, lipsticking its essentially masculine features by portraying it through the eyes of Rachel, and stressing the sea of troubles they faced together as man & wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
...Where Are We At?" In the face of such opposition, Truman Democrats had neither the leadership nor the internal strength to do anything. The most astute Administration leader in Congress was 69-year-old Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who, besides having nothing to lead, was himself a political hybrid: half Fair Dealer, half Southern Democrat. Majority Leader McFarland in the Senate was no leader at all, nor was he undeviatingly loyal to the White House (see above). The regular Democrats had little control over committees, where legislation is corked up, or any real control over bills when they reached...
Career: Took over management of the rundown family estates, one of the largest in Ecuador, on his father's death in 1933. Introduced tractors, combines, alfalfa, contour plowing, hybrid corn. Built up one of the best herds of Holstein Friesian dairy cattle in South America. Founded Quito's excellent American School in 1940, after one of his daughters came home from the Colegio Aleman crying "Heil Hitler!" Served as ambassador to Washington, 1944-46. Elected President in 1947 on an independent reform ticket for a four-year term. Concentrated on restoring political stability (there had been five Presidents...
...Billy Budd" is worth seeing. But it is not a play in the full sense of the word. It is a curious hybrid of drama and moral melodrama...