Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, the Red Chinese embassy in Warsaw summoned Fu Tsun's friend, castigated him for his political "thoughts," and put him aboard the next plane for China. Disconsolate, Fu Tsun realized that the only persons to know these thoughts were himself and the "innocent" young girl. Fu Tsun's turn came in November. The Chinese embassy warned him to wind up his studies by mid-December and return to his homeland. He complained to Polish friends: "I will be made to do manual labor. This will ruin my hands. My playing will be finished." He also learned...
What About Cromwell? At Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where his plane landed for a brief stop, he was detained by immigration officials for questioning. When he emerged from the examination room, his plane had left, and there was no other due to go to Nyasaland for two more days. But Dr. Banda made the most of his stay. At an airport press conference, he bluntly declared that he had no use for moderates. "What about your Oliver Cromwell?" he shouted at British reporters. "Was he a moderate? No. He was a fanatic." Then, gesturing wildly, he exclaimed: "I'm ready...
...stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier, was launched from a B-47 at a target 700 miles away. The Bold Orion is 25 ft. long, 6 ft. in diameter. Upon launching, a long lanyard from the plane to the rocket jerks free, firing the first stage directly ahead. After first-stage burnout and separation the second stage fires, guided by a new type of system devised by Martin Co.. then arcs upward at a 45° angle. Before reaching the top of its arc, it releases...
...Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including 90,000 on Quemoy, 25,000 on Matsu-and an air force of 400 jet fighters spearheaded by F-86 Sabre jet interceptors of Korean-war vintage. The U.S. had in the area...
...simplest maneuver for a sailing spaceship, says Dr. Cotter, will be escape from the earth. The satellite will be placed in an orbit in the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun (see diagram). After spreading its sail, the satellite will be designed to have a slow turning motion, rotating once during every two trips around the earth. When it is moving away from the sun, its sail will be at right angles to the sun's light, and it will get the maximum push in a forward direction. By the time it gets...