Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ominous pink clouds, as deadly as contaminated air, drifted out of war-torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...landing) airplane to do this trick successfully is Bell Aircraft Corp.'s X-14, whose pictures were made public last week. Unlike Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s X-13 (TIME, May 20), which stands on its tail while taking off, the X-14 takes off in normal horizontal flying position. Its two jet engines blow their gas through thrust-diverters rather like Venetian blinds. The gas, deflected downward, pushes the airplane up. During the hovering period, jets of compressed air act as controls to keep it in the proper position. After the airplane is well off the ground...
Catherine's Glynnese was often far less daundering than her normal English. Her description of William's reaction to the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria is a case in point: "A pamphlet nearly written he has been boiling over at the horrors and at the conduct of the Government very proud that England's voice is speaking its great heart throbbing and in this pumped-out moment with no backing it speaks...
...relayed the decision. Kittinger replied in code that he would not come down. Winzen pleaded. Back from 18 miles overhead came the coded answer: "Come and get me." Stapp and Winzen were afraid that hypoxia (lack of oxygen) had unsettled their pilot, but soon they recognized Kittinger's normal style of humor...
...wise taxpayer merely turns over part of his investments with their income to his child for his education or to an aged relative, for support for a minimum of ten years (and one day) or the lifetime of the beneficiary, whichever is shorter. While the trust beneficiary must pay normal income taxes on the trust income, his tax bracket is generally much lower than that of the donor, in effect drastically reducing the family's overall tax. One San Francisco financier cut the taxes on a big slice of his income from 50% to 20% by setting up nine...