Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictorial sneak preview of the new models, see BUSINESS, Fast Getaway. DIPLOMATS have negotiated about it, politicians have exploited it, editorialists have pondered it. But what is really happening on Quemoy? TIME'S Jim Bell, who has been there before, went back last week on the first plane that would take him and filed a moving report. See FOREIGN NEWS, Quemoy: Autumn Nightmare...
...Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost ten campaign days by driving home from Washington to save plane fare, he will probably win the governorship in a walk-and with it the chance to fill state administrative ranks with some 1,000 Democrat appointees...
...camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself to its target by seeking out the heat produced by a plane's jet blast. The Chinese Reds have no answer to the Sidewinder...
...exhibits, however, fell victime to the charges that they were not typical of everyday America. There was concern lest visitors thought that every American child played with the elaborate modern toys on display. One filmstrip on life in these United States included a housewife flying her plane to the grocery. And people who do not care for modern art protested that the exhibit of contemporary paintings and sculpture was unrepresentative...
...Nationalist C46 cargo plane was heavily damaged by the swooping Red jets yesterday afternoon, but managed to land on Quemoy, the Defense Ministry said. Two crewmen were wounded...