Word: mais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare, dimly lit squadron headquarters at Hanoi's Bach Mai Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...Meeting in London, the International Amateur Athletic Federation approved 38 new track and field world records. Among the most important: three for Czech Marathoner Emil Zatopek, at six miles (28:08.4), 10,000 meters (29:01.6) and 30,000 meters (1:35:23.8); two for the U.S.'s Mai Whitfield, at the half mile (1:48.6) and 1,000 meters...
...Mai Hooper, 25, a Los Angeles telephone-company lineman, who drove a shiny streamliner with a Class C (up to 300 cu. in.) V-8 engine over the cement-hard flats to six new International records, hitting more than 230 m.p.h. at distances from one kilometer to ten kilometers...
...West Berlin what The Third Man did so successfully for Vienna. Refugee Dirk Bogarde has confessed to a murder he did not commit because he thinks he has nothing left to live for. But as soon as he begins serving his life term, his long-lost girl friend (Mai Zetterling) turns up. Breaking out of jail to clear his name, Bogarde is hounded through the rubble-strewn ruins by the police and matches wits with skulking black-marketeers. The film fails because its events are too predictable for suspense, its hero and heroine too coldly competent for sympathy...
...Turku, Finland, Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield, pressed by Miler Wes Santee, whirled to a world record at 880 yds. in 1:48.6, breaking the old record by six-tenths of a second. Aiming for ten records in a year (TIME, Feb. 16), Whitfield has now set four (others: 500 yds., 500 meters...