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...Korean rioters, diehard Communists all, were moved by General "Bull" Boatner to the prisoner compounds on neighboring Pongam Island. There was an ominous hint of trouble to come on Pongam recently when the P.W. command uncovered Communist plans for a mass escape attempt. Last week trouble materialized with a roar in six compounds of Pongam's enclosure No. 2, where 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 prisoners are confined...
...sunny side of the ring where the skeptical and hard-to-please bleacherites sit, and gave them a spectacular series of passes with his left hand, turning the bull in a tight circle and breaking off with a snap that left the animal dazed and dominated. In a roar of oles he turned his back on the bull and walked slowly away, his face a picture of arrogance...
When Drum published its illustrated expose (see cut), it touched off a roar of protest round the world. The British government sent a special investigator, and the respected South African Institute of Race Relations confirmed Drum's charges with its own survey. The protests forced the reluctant government to make some reforms. Drum dug up other similar stories such as a series on wealthy wine farmers who paid their non-white laborers partly in wine, thus kept them in a state of uncomplaining drunkenness. It followed up with articles on education, child care, home building and hygiene...
...flat land of Edwards Air Force Base in California, a cluster of scientists and Air Force brass watched a silvery, swept-wing jet fighter roar down the runway and into the air for a test flight. It climbed high in the air, then leveled off and shot across the air base with a roar like a thunderclap. This week Long Island's Republic Aviation Corp. proudly announced the results of the flight: its XF-91, powered by a General Electric J47 turbojet and a Reaction Motors rocket engine, had become the first U.S. combat plane to fly through...
...ascent of one of these monster rockets will be something to see and hear. It will roar up vertically and turn its course toward the east to take advantage of the spin of the earth (1,038 m.p.h. at the equator). At the altitude of 24.9 miles and the speed of 5,256 m.p.h., the first section will separate and return to earth, braked by a steel-mesh parachute and downward-firing rockets. The second section will carry on, its motors lifting the rocket to 39.8 miles and boosting its speed to 14,364 m.p.h. Then it too will drop...