Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mach 2. By any standard the Crusader is a hot plane. It packs missiles and fast-firing 20-mm. cannons, has a 1,000 mi. combat range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps...
...Awakening. But few marginal operators will share in the business. Of 1,000 uranium mines in the U.S., say Colorado uranium men, only a handful like Charles Steen's rich Mi Vida Mine are making money, have sewed up 90% of all production. Says Millionaire Steen himself: "The public has found out what we've known for a long time-that it's a damn hard job to find a good uranium mine. It isn't the bonanza that a lot of promoters led the public to believe. The crooked promoters and brokers killed their...
...players had been up to 'cellist Charles Forbes! The group has done much better in the past. Sarah-Jane Smith the concert's featured soloist, singing four works in four languages. Well-trained and agile voice, but tone tended to be too breathy. Most noteworthy was Ch'io mi scordi te?, one of those demanding "concert arias" that are in effect extensive, multisectional operatic scenes for one person...
Among the visitors who flew in to Katmandu for King Mahendra's coronation last week (see above) were three sturdy men wearing swords, embroidered knee-length felt boots and striped wrap-around coats. They were from tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan, a state perched in the Himalayas between India. Sikkim and Tibet. Although King Mahendra's close neighbors, they had traveled eight days-on foot and by pony to India, and then by plane to Nepal...
...with some blend of the original Araucanian Indians-have demonstrable courage and energy. Though outnumbered in an 1879-83 war with Peru and Bolivia, they easily grabbed the copper and nitrate riches of the rainless northern deserts, thus completed the process of making their country so long (2,600 mi.) that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President a man who was once their dictator: General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo...