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...bomber flies it is 205 miles from Fort Worth to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. Last week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted...
...critic was Charles Hazen of the Shreveport (La.) Times, who cited 58 stories, many of which dealt with the Red-hunting activities of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy...
Louisiana's Long haters, strong in New Orleans but weak in the parishes, weren't buying any new model of an old machine. At the last minute, they put up an acting U.S. district attorney from Shreveport, Malcolm E. Lafargue, 41, to run against Russell. Last week, in his 1950 Ford, well-equipped with loudspeakers of his own, Lafargue was zipping from one speech to another at 90 miles an hour...
...Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
...Shreveport...