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...machine has been made foolproof. In clear skies last week, after an American 707 took off from St. Louis, one of its four engines fell off. The pilot easily landed, and a team of experts began looking into the possibility that metal fatigue may have caused the pylon bearing the engine to break away from the wing...
...Friday" assault on Belfast (TIME, July 31). Last week British soldiers took the offensive. Discarding the army's "low profile" policy, troops invaded such Catholic strongholds as Belfast's Andersonstown and Ballymurphy districts and rounded up hundreds of men for questioning. Giant bulldozers ripped through the iron-pylon barricades that had marked many Catholic enclaves. In Belfast's narrow Keenan Street, the soldiers discovered a complete bomb factory, 420 lbs. of gelignite, sodium nitrate, detonators and fuse wire...
Last week Feltrinelli's mutilated body was found at the foot of a power pylon five miles east of Milan. Police theorized that he had been killed by the accidental explosion of eight sticks of dynamite he had apparently been carrying. Feltrinelli, the police suggested, had been attempting to blow up the pylon and destroy part of Milan's electric-power system. Italy's far-leftists immediately charged that Feltrinelli had been murdered by political opponents on the right-a possibility that the police were also investigating...
...fawn cavalry pants, with his pet lion Gilmore tugging on a leash. Turner's air stunts were no less electrifying; he performed strut-wrenching maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York passenger-plane flight record...
...official spokesman said: "We consider ourselves at war," and as much as admitted the reserves were being partially mobilized. The week also brought intensified artillery duels along the Syrian and Egyptian frontiers, spectacular aerial dogfights, and more commando raids by both sides, including Arab demolition of a power line pylon which cut off electricity for the town of Eilot...