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...above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made from west to east with the prevailing winds...
Rough & Rudimentary. In Korea, the going was almost as rough for correspondents as it was for soldiers. Most of them took their chances with the troops, ate and slept where they could, were soon covered with mosquito and flea bites, came down with dysentery...
...Health Service, which costs the British taxpayer $650 million a year, supplies free medicine, also free false teeth, wigs, spectacles, glass eyes, wooden legs and hearing aids. Last week it announced that it would draw the line at bath salts, vanishing cream, shaving soap, toothpaste, hair tonic and anti-mosquito lotions. However, a spokesman admitted, there are borderline cases: "A man with an itch, it might be argued, needs medicated soap...
...Mosquito repellent: If you were hungry enough you wouldn't pay any attention to it either...
...weapon McAuliffe was talking about was "nerve gas," long a subject of wild speculation among amateur military strategists. Presumably it would be sprayed over enemy cities by planes in the same way that whole areas are sprayed with mosquito-killing DDT, paralyzing the whole population. Then the attacking army, equipped with protective masks, would march in and take over...