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Thirty-one more characters, however, parade across the stage at various times. It is a tribute to Morton Da Costa's directing skill that they maneuver themselves so well. The sets, too, are a triumph. Peter Larkin's designs take the audience inside an airplane in mid-air--a really remarkable feat. All in all, No Time for Sergeants will amuse anyone who will ever have contact with military life, i.e., practically everybody...
...More than 100 guided-missile launching sites for Nike antiaircraft rockets (which can shoot some 20 miles at supersonic speeds to destroy planes in mid-air). ¶ Several hundred emplaced 90-mm. and radar-aimed Skysweeper antiaircraft guns manned by 20,000 soldiers...
...downward column of smoke and a few bits of floating debris last week severely set back the world's bravest post war experiment in civil aviation. One more British Comet, the third of the swift jet liners in less than a year, crumpled in mid-air and plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing all on board...
Dashing down the basketball court, dribbling the ball past the defense, the Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy raced toward the basket. In the midst of a mid-air leap he palmed the ball in his ham-sized right hand, faked a pass, swung the ball behind his back into his left hand, then took his shot toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform...
...Your June 15 article on the village of Kalavryta is one that would make me mortgage the homestead on TIME'S facts. Early in January 1944 a mid-air collision between many B-17's occurred near this village. Having parachuted within a day's walk of Kalavryta we started south and late in the afternoon came upon this village. The ruins were devastating and still smoldering; my heart skipped a beat, and I thought "Did one of our colliding B-17's land on this village?" It was with little relief that I heard...