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...came out recently with a dramatic proposal for forestalling it: For the good of the Philippines, he suggested, both he and Quirino should 1) renounce their ambitions to the Presidency, and 2) agree to support popular Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, 45, who has ably curbed the Huk menace (TIME, Nov...
Breaking the Sound Barrier. A soaring British film picturing the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of supersonic flight; with Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd (TIME, Nov...
...Australian Olympic team and one of the first to be shut out of the 1,500-meter heats at the Olympics. But as a sidelined observer, Miler Landy took due note of the peculiar running style of Czechoslovakia's famed triple Olympic Titleholder Emil Zatopek (TIME, Nov. 3). He also picked up a few training tips from Zatopek...
Last week the Navy published the first pictures of the delta-wing seaplane that it has been billing as a revolutionary advance in water-air warfare (TIME, Nov. 24). Built by Convair, the XF2Y-1 Sea Dart taxis, takes off and lands on a hydro-ski (submerged in the picture) that keeps its fuselage well above the surface when it is moving rapidly. As soon as the plane is in the air, the hydro-ski retracts into its belly, giving it the low-drag flight of a land-based jet. Chief advantages of the ski-jet: it is not burdened...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor. Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME, Nov...