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...pilots, and the Flight Engineers' International Assn.. which speaks for 3,500 U.S. mechanic-engineers now working on big DC-7s and Super Constellations. In the pilots' attempt to oust the engineers, says Western Air Lines President Terrell C. Drinkwater. "we were selected as a guinea pig for the entire industry...
...Navy's first nuclear depth-charge blasts at deep level to establish kill potential against deeply submerged enemy submarines, also at shallow-level to develop new-type attack against surface vessels. Target: a guinea-pig fleet of three destroyers, a submarine, a merchantman and ten barges...
Food was good; the "screws" (guards) were, within limits, kind, Nathan Leopold, 19 years old when he entered prison, did service as a malaria guinea pig. increased his knowledge of foreign languages to 27, and acquired the elements of, or at least a desire for. religious faith. But readers may well feel that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about...
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...Slipping Pig. Navigator Bruce Kulka unbuckled his seat and shoulder harnesses, scooted up from his seat in the nose to the crawlway, opened a hatch and squeezed into the floodlighted bomb bay. There the big bomb-SACmen call it a "pig"-hung from its single shackle. Cautiously, Kulka tried to slide a big steel pin through the shackle to hold the pig in case the electrical lock let go. The bomb began to wobble. Desperately, Kulka worked...