Word: pioneers
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...difference is not a matter of discipline but of treatment. In previous wars Negro troops were just as heroic, disciplined and devoted as at present, but they were then subjected to official, systematic insult, discrimination, humiliation and frameups in efforts to discredit them. Thanks to the pioneer work of President Harry S Truman, segregation in the armed forces has been virtually eliminated, and the Negro, in the main, has been accepted on the same basis as other fighting men. As a result, the U.S. military establishment is now, ironically, the most democratic institution in American life, which accounts...
Getting Behind. Son of Major General Robert Olds, an airpower pioneer along with Billy Mitchell, Olds grew up in airplanes, flew 107 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs against the Luftwaffe. Olds finds dogfighting little changed from World War II. "The main idea is still to get behind him instead of letting him get behind you. The increased speed requires much faster thinking, and the other big difference is weaponry. It was practically eyeball to eyeball with the machine guns in World War II. We can fire our missiles from 1½ to two miles away, though...
...Curtain. Hovercraft were born in the fertile mind of British Aeronautical Engineer Christopher Cockerell in 1954. Testing his notion in true pioneer-inventor fashion, he attached a hose to the exhaust of an ordinary vacuum cleaner, stuck it through a hole in the top of an open-bottomed tin can, and watched fascinated as the can floated off the floor; the increased air pressure inside the can had pushed against the floor through the open end, lifting the can. Recognizing that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft...
Died. Raymond Smith, 80, founder of Reno's Harolds Club and a pioneer of mass gambling, a onetime carnival worker who launched the club named after his son in 1935 with one roulette wheel and two battered slot machines, built it into the world's biggest casino under one roof (20,000 customers daily), and finally cashed in when he and his sons sold out in 1962 to an Eastern syndicate for $17,500,000; of cancer; in Reno...
Konrad Lorenz, Director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Physiology of Behavior, author of On Aggression, and pioneer in the study of animal behavior patterns will lecture on "The Innate Bases of Learning" at 8 p.m. Thursday in Lowell Lecture Hall...