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...House of Commons, where no King or Queen is allowed to enter, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and other members of government and loyal opposition waited in fidgety silence until the stentorian cry of "Black Rod!" was heard in the corridors. A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers...
...guarded glimpses of the Gloster GA5 Javelin interceptor and the Avro 698 bomber. Both are delta-wings, which British (and some American) designers believe are the coming thing for practical supersonic flight. Neither plane was permitted to show its full performance, but the big Avro 698, flown by hot-rod Test Pilot Roland Falk, went into a vertical bank 200 ft. above the viewing stands. It was only the fourth flight for the 698. Said a top U.S. plane manufacturer as the Avro shot past: "That pilot ought to be shot. He risked the lives of dozens...
...Rod Geiger, an American G.I., came back from Italy with an odd trophy in his barracks bag : a print of Roberto Rossellini's Open City, one of the first movies made in liberated Italy. Geiger had bought the exclusive U.S. rights for $13,000. In seven years the film, which startled U.S. audiences with its documentary realism, grossed more than...
...proper is not too good for trout, but the rivers are out of this world for a trout fisherman. A morning's catch would run ten or twelve rainbow over 25 in. up to 32 in., smaller ones too numerous to count. Would advise the use of casting rod, not fly rod, spoons and 20-lb. nylon lines. There is no fishing on this continent to compare with...
...virgins stormed the dais where Batho sat, and screamed: "We want our chief Seretse . . . May you die where you stand." Batho appealed for order and was shouted down: "Seretse should lead us . . . We cannot nominate anyone else to take his place. You have tried to rule us with a rod of iron. You treat us like ants. We won't have...