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...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...
...water, from oceans to big creeks, flecks of white canvas dotted the waterscape like daisies in a field. Coming lower, the saucer man could have seen highways specked with thousands of small trailers. On each, trundling for the nearest water, rested wooden hulls, some almost bathtub shaped, others as sleek as streamlined as space ships...
...ivory and the green, grey or black rocks of their Arctic home, the Eskimos told of what they knew: the dull strength of a musk ox, its heavy head lowered on thick shoulders; the rubbery, spreading massiveness of a sunning seal; the graceful curves of an otter's sleek body...
...sleek new 12,800-ton Russian cruiser Sverdlov* appeared off the Isle of Wight last week, bound for the coronation naval review. A British pilot went aboard, but Captain Olimpey Rudakov had no need for him. Silent on the bridge, his chest diagonally festooned with medals, Captain Rudakov manipulated a series of levers behind him to convey his orders to the engine room and the helmsman. At the correct spot, the correct time, he dropped anchor. Simultaneously, with a flick of another switch, he set off a 21-gun salute...
Colonel Michael McCoy, who commands the only combat-ready all-jet bomber wing in the U.S. Air Force, flew one of his sleek, swept-wing B-47s from the U.S. to Britain last April in a record 5 hr. 38 min. Last week, when his 306th Medium Bombardment Wing, battle-loaded with dummy atom bombs, set out for a 90-day tour in England, Colonel McCoy bent no throttles. Leading the first formation of 15 planes from Limestone, Maine to Fairford, Gloucestershire, the colonel took 5 hr. 53 min. to make the crossing...