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...price tag of $900,000-about a third of the cost of the F-4 Phantoms the U.S. is using in Viet Nam-the Freedom Fighter is a lot of plane. With a razor-thin wingspan of only 27 ft., the F-5 can carry ordnance, including nuclear bombs, weighing up to half of its own 61-ton weight. That makes it, pound for pound, just about the biggest payload carrier of any supersonic plane. So maneuverable is it that pilots claim that "under 30,000 feet, the F-5 can lick anything that flies-no matter how fast...
...seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes finally and irreparably cracked. The working-class man saw that the Tories were not necessarily better or even better-behaved than he just because they appeared to be so. One result was a razor-thin margin of victory for Harold Wilson...
...Base, Calif., had a third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
...campaign again for 1956-largely through a spate of investigations into Dixon-Yates, pornography, black market babies, juvenile delinquency, and sundry other sins. He lost again to Stevenson. But in a dramatic tussle for the vice-presidential nomination, the gawky Tennessee lawyer managed to produce a razor-thin victory over Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy after a thrilling roll-call fight. But when the Democratic ticket went down to crashing defeat that November, Estes Kefauver's great days were over...
...They struggled up the slope with heavy equipment. Some of them fell into deep crevasses along the way, seriously injured. By this time both Germans had fallen to their deaths; Corti and Longhi were stranded on different ledges on the wall. Securing a winch to the ice on the razor-thin summit, the rescuers lowered a man on cable down the north wall. After three agonizing hours, he managed to bring back Corti. But storms kept rescuers from reaching Longhi. When the observers below last saw him alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine...