Word: scorpion
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...fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and the rabblerousing of Communist agitators. Firebrands among them killed Jordan's King Abdullah (for compromising with Israel), overthrew governments and raided into Israel, setting off a chain of attacks and reprisals that led straight to the massacres at Kibya and Scorpion's Pass...
...Whitley Collins, 56, a tireless, hard-driving financial expert, was elected president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., maker of the F-89D Scorpion, all-weather, rocket-armed interceptor. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Collins started as a banker, was a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones...
...some 500 Israelis and an uncounted number of Arabs have been killed or wounded in fierce border clashes which the U.N. and its armistice teams are powerless to prevent. Some in recent months have assumed the gory proportion of massacres-Kibya last October, when Jews killed 53 helpless Arabs, Scorpion Pass last March, when Arabs slew eleven helpless Jews. But those are only larger, remembered episodes in a situation that is worsening rapidly. Last week TIME correspondents concluded tours on opposite sides of the border between Israel and Jordan...
...left and the Israelis on his right came a steady barrage of accusations and complaints. Commander Hutchison, chairman of the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, tried patiently to winnow the facts from the frenzy. The problem was to fix responsibility for the cold-blooded massacre of eleven Israelis at Scorpion's Pass (TIME, March...
NORTHROP Aircraft, Inc., which had wing troubles that grounded early models of its F-89D Scorpion interceptor, has eliminated the bugs. The Air Force has given Northrop a $155 million contract to produce more of its two-man jets, heaviest-armed (104 rockets) fighters in existence...