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...over. Said Jet Ace (11 MIGs) Major James Jabara: "It's like flying an arm chair." The MIG cannot pull out of a left spin, but U.S. pilots never have to worry about the Sabre. The Sabre is also stronger than the MIG; pilots have seen the wings shear off a MIG or the tail disintegrate, but an F-86 has never come apart...
Some of the opposition are for prompt amendment of the constitution, to shear the King's power; some are for nationalization of the oilfields, some for land reform, some merely against alliances with the West. Behind them, but in the forefront of the rioting, were Communist partisans, happy to direct the troublemaking against Britain...
LeTourneau is shipping some of his most impressive mechanical equipment to Africa, including a 22-ton machine that can shear off big trees like a scythe cutting grass and a self-contained sawmill unit which will be hauled by the biggest bulldozer in the world. LeTourneau insists that he is not primarily interested in profit in his Liberian adventure. Nor does he want to create mere "rice Christians." Says he: "I am trying to do a missionary job in a businesslike...
Last week five cardinals met in Rome, as a papal tribunal, to investigate the knights, and perhaps shear them of some of their anachronistic powers...
...fight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally saves the settlers...