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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prowling the uneasy aerial no man's land between East and West one clear day last week, a U.S. Navy P4M Mercator patrol plane lumbered along at 7,000 ft. above the Sea of Japan, 55 nautical miles east of the North Korean coast. A few minutes after noon, Tail Gunner Donald E. Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked...
...prime duty of U.S. forces to keep track of the relentless Communist buildup at key Asian jumping-off points. The Mercator's flight was part of the hazardous duty that crewmen long ago came to accept as normal in the Asian aerial no man's land. Since the Korean armistice of 1953, Communist and U.S. planes have exchanged fire no fewer than 14 times along Asian coasts. The grim results: 36 U.S. airmen lost, ten Communist fighter pilots shot down...
...built, said Chief Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
...Edwin H. Land, industrialist, inventor of Polaroid Land camera, president, Polaroid Corp..................................................................... Sc.D...
...organic waste right in the sewage water. The combustion not only purifies the water, but also produces steam to operate the plant with enough left over, in some cases, to sell as commercial power. The only residue is an inoffensive and inert ash heavy enough to use as land fill. Sterling estimates that operating cost of the Chicago plant will be $12 to $15 per ton of sludge v. $45 per ton for older methods. Sterling does not expect to make much of a profit on the Chicago plant, but hopes it will prove so successful that other cities will...