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...ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect to make a profit." For too long, said he, Britain's aircraft industry has been "looking too hard at the stars and tripping over its own feet," has done too much "talking about tomorrow...
Applied Science. In Greenmeadows, New Zealand, a 13-year-old schoolboy was nabbed by police after he spotted a fireworks display in a shopwindow, focused the sun's rays through a magnifying glass, set off an explosion that destroyed ?16 ($44.80) worth of merchandise...
...government or indicated to the Austrians what we plan for them. Whatever one may think of the Vienna government or of the Russians' unilateral action, the fact remains that the Russians have moved with dispatch and are displaying their wares to the Austrians. So far our shopwindow has been filled chiefly with confusion...
...brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...
...What, going home and leaving your shopwindow lights on, Weber?", a friendly policeman last week admonished a petty Berlin dealer in women's wear. "You know Goring's orders...