Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later the MIGs made a second firing pass, set an engine and wing tank ablaze. Lyles gave orders to bail out, and five men did. Then he looked around for a place to set down, just made it to a 2,000-ft. Soviet air force emergency dirt landing strip. The MIGs followed the C118 down. One of them made another firing pass when the transport was at 1,000 ft.-and missed...
Cartoonist Yager, 46, is now negotiating with three syndicates on a new spaceman comic strip that he thinks will make Buck Rogers seem as obsolete as a caveman. "Buck Rogers' day is here," explained Yager. "So now a fellow has to think up things the scientists haven't got yet." In the divorce, National Newspaper Syndicate kept custody of Buck Rogers himself, who was created 29 years ago by Dille's father and taken over by Yager alone only in 1948. Dille will continue to peddle Buck's 25th century adventures to the post-Sputnik boom...
...Lebanon, the original source of disagreement-the possibility that President Chamoun might change the constitution to win a second six-year term-was no longer an issue. But still the Moslem rebels in arms against him continued their sporadic resistance. Reportedly reinforced by fedayeen infiltrators from the Gaza Strip, rebel forces attacked a Beirut police station, looted it of arms and ammunition before army troops drove them out in one of the few real actions of the month-old crisis...
...thousands who live in wilderness villages. Airlines touch Point Barrow in the far north on the Arctic Ocean, Kotzebue on Kotzebue Sound, Attu in the Aleutians. Bush Pilot Don Sheldon, 36, hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives in Sleetmute (pop. 120) on the Kuskokwim River, where English-speaking Eskimos still attend Sleetmute's Russian Orthodox Church. Pilots transport Fairbanks Attorney Ed Merdes...
Winchell went back to hoofing for two weeks at the Hotel Tropicana to ease the pinch of losing his TV income from the canceled Walter Winchell File. Spectacular billboards glutted the highways for 300 miles around Las Vegas (and up and down Hollywood's Sunset Strip), radio stations spewed his own breathless announcements all over the West, the Tropicana was laden with huge photographs of Winchell hovering near President Eisenhower (caption: "The only reporter allowed this close...