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...this year in honor of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Designed after a desk which belonged to the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Carleton will sell for $1,000. Story & Clark's most striking number: the "ranch-style spinet," cased in knotty pine, and decorated with a carved steer's head, leather straps on the music rack, and ranch brands carved to order on either side...
This was the pilot who was going to steer the party through the lightless seas and black reefs of Communism...
Ever since ex-Air Force Major William F. Long founded Dallas' Pioneer Airlines in 1946, the busy, ambitious feeder line has grown like a Texas steer. Starting with six surplus Douglas DC-3s, Pioneer began by shuttling oilmen from west Texas oilfields to Dallas and Houston, soon built its fleet up to 13 DC-3s and its route to 21 cities in Texas and New Mexico. In 1950, moneymaking Pioneer flew more passenger-miles (37 million) and carried more mail than any of the nation's 14 other local service lines...
...Courthouse, the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security began an investigation of U.S. subversives in the United Nations Secretariat. Senator O'Connor, a Maryland Democrat, the Committee's acting chairman, said the probe would be "solely to safeguard the internal security of the United States." The Committee, he promised, would steer clear of any interference in U.N. affairs...
...seeker itself will probably move into the guided-missile field. It can be made to measure the light that is emitted from lower levels of the atmosphere. By keeping headed toward this light, it can steer a high-flying missile on a steady horizontal course...