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...series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest route to mutual understanding between the U.S. people and the Government of Russia. The exchange...
...Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
Payments will be resumed automatically "in the shortest possible time" after the Congress appropriates the necessary funds, said the Administration, appealing to veterans not to write in about the delay. The checks have been averaging...
...steamships, the winds are nothing but a nuisance. Steamers go out of their way to dodge a hurricane, but in normal weather they stick to a "great-circle course"-the shortest path between two points on the earth's curving surface. But ocean-flying airplanes made the winds important again. Last week the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization), which provides planes with valuable weather information, was planning ways to standardize its service internationally. The idea is to help pilots of all countries and languages make the winds work in their favor...
...leave Bulgaria soon, Moscow was not taking chances on any bad Bulgarian guessing in the future. Thirty thousand Russian settlers had already moved into Bulgaria, and more were on the way. Eventually, the largest group would settle in the Dobruja area, along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast-shortest land corridor from the U.S.S.R. to the Dardanelles...