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During World War I, German Zeppelins bombed London from the safe altitude of 20,000 ft., far above the ceilings of primitive fighter planes. But by 1916, air defense techniques had improved so much that five Zeppelins were shot down over Britain. Also during World War I, the "blimp," as...
A key command of the U.S. Air Force last week began flying through its biggest peacetime maneuver to show that in wartime its men could perform well-even if its old machines might not. The command: the Military Air Transport Service, whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and...
In this latest Greene entertainment, the hero gets away with more than usual. He is Mr. Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman who has for years been the Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like...
The Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government...
Occupying the presidential suite at Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington last week was a wide-eyed little boy born to palace luxury but a newcomer to the miracles of modern medicine. The patient: Prince Mashhur ibn Saud, 3½, the 17th and favorite son of Arabia's King...