Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed in World War II): two are in the air force, a third is reportedly a wild-living, peg-trousered boidevardier in Gorky Street's "jet set." Mikoyan's brother Artem, an air force general, is famous in his own right as co-designer of the MIG -the "MI" stands for Mikoyan, the "G" for Co-Designer Gurevich...
Russian T-34 tanks patrolled the road to Damascus last week, and from the high skies over Syria came the whistling roar of Russian MIG-17 jet fighters. But to Syrians the tank patrols and jet nights were becoming routine: Russian arms have been arriving in Syria in quantity for two years. Damascus itself was calm in the summer sunshine, but whether Syria's plain citizens realized it or not (the heavily censored press gave them little to go on), their country was the No. 1 topic in chancelleries and foreign offices around the world. Cabinets met to consider...
...five-lane Russian-built superhighway, it quite possibly marked the first time in several weeks that the highway had been used by anything more than a donkey cart. Russia has also supplied some $40 million in military aid "several" T-34 tanks, fairly modern artillery pieces, 32 MIG-17 fighter planes and six helicopters, as well as 30 taxis for the near empty streets of Kabul. The U.S. considers southern Afghanistan its sphere of assistance, has built.two major dams there (which unfortunately cannot be seen by many Afghans) and has sponsored the training of 500 Afghan teachers by U.S. instructors...
...theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused...
...critical question of what happened to Egypt's air force, Nasser insisted that, except for one Ilyushin that cracked up on a takeoff, all of Egypt's bombers had escaped to other Arab lands. In addition, said he, some of his MIG fighters had taken refuge in Syria. Among the fighters that he had packed off to Syria, Nasser revealed, were some of the new twinjet, supersonic MIG 17s. "Nobody knew we had any 17s," he boasted, "until one day early in the fighting, when three of them were surprised near an airfield in the Canal Zone...