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...Vampire fighter, powered with a "Ghost" jet engine. By the time he had landed, he had hung up a new airplane altitude record: 59,492 ft. (11.27 miles)-more than half a mile higher than the record (56,046 ft.) established ten years ago by Italy's Colonel Mario Pezzi. Said Catseye Cunningham: "I just flew the plane to the highest point it would go with that engine and then came down again. It took 32 minutes to go up and 18 minutes to come down...
There was talk of crisis in Mexico City last week. Architect Mario Pani and Engineers Héctor Maganda and Armando Oseli separately warned that the capital was sinking. Through thousands of wells, they said, subterranean water was being pumped out of the old dry lake bed on which the city stands. As a result, the whole city sank more than seven inches last year. The Palace of Fine Arts, already six feet lower than its original level, settled still more. Grades changed as Mexico City drank up its own footing...
...battle was won. At next day's cabinet meeting in Rome's Viminale Palace, Mario Scelba was dominant. The ministers approved a decree which would: 1) outlaw all armed formations; 2) allow uniforms to be worn only with police permission; 3) provide for imprisonment up to ten years for having arms illegally...
Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
...born in Ramsgate, England, in 1881. He is survived by his wife, with whom he celebrated his 57th wedding anniversary last December 16; his son, Thomas North Whitehead, Director of the Graduate Management Training Program at Radcliffe and member of the Faculty of Business Administration; his daughter, Miss Jessie Mario Whitehead; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...