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Cartooning: The Arizona Republic's Reginald ("Reg") Manning, for his cartoon, "Hats," contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.'s bullet-punctured helmet...
Crouching spraddle-legged on the parking strips at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., a line of sleek, grey jet planes with round plastic noses waits day & night for the summons to take the air. They are "all-weather interceptors" (Lockheed F-94s of the 52nd Fighter All-Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors...
...secondary villains-Joe Adonis, a sleek and handsomely sullen hood, and burly Bookmaker Frank Erickson-glowered briefly at the committee, answered no important questions, and departed, Adonis to his comfortable home in New Jersey, Erickson to his jail cell, where he is serving two years for bookmaking. The stage was set for the leading heavy of the piece...
Only an exquisite talent explains a ticket on Quincy street. Of a line of forty cars, many of them sleek, foreign beauties, I acquired the only ticket. An adjacent vehicle had been parked so long the squirrels were storing acorns in its carburetor. Another rested with its front bumper peeling the bark from President Conant's prize hemlock tree. Who got the old tag? Don't ask ridiculous questions...
...last week, a sleek, black-and-grey light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made...