Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tactics from Matchsticks. He was also working relentlessly at solving tactical problems, and late one night, after jockeying matchsticks across his table for hours, he arrived at a memorable maneuver. Based on the premise that the traditional three-plane fighter element was an inefficient formation for aerial battle, Thach had...
Aside from the Communist press, only Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's weekly L'Express complained aloud, gloomily predicting "a terrorized silence of all daily newspapers." In his new post Soustelle also has the right to hire and fire anyone on the state-owned French radio and television, which...
¶ Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria...
Behind these attacks on Tito-whom the Soviets had no real hope of bringing to heel-lay Khrushchev's determination to stamp out "revisionism" in the satellites, and particularly in Wladyslaw Gomulka's Poland, the one nation in the Soviet bloc that has managed to achieve some scant...
During this maneuver, the normal control surfaces do not work because there is no flow of air over them, so their job is done by rotating compressed air nozzles. One of them in the tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw...