Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further his ambition, the Floyds built a small-craft landing strip in front of their house. Simply by standing near his front door, Pilot Floyd could watch his son's progress. One day in 1949 he watched the boy die; the youth's plane came down for a landing and crashed directly before his horrified father. For months after that the Floyds lived in a sort of daze. Finally Mrs. Floyd decided to adopt another child...
Antonio Frasconi, 34, seems a paradoxical fellow. He has happy brown eyes and a sad black mustache, an air of contentment and a sighing voice, a habit of absent-minded wandering and a craftsman's power of concentration. Says he: "An artist must be aware of the comic strip as well as of the serious side of life." Frasconi divides his time between Southern California (where "everything is wide open") and Manhattan ("it's all concentrated like a sardine can"). He sketches constantly in street and field "There is so much going on," he sighs, "so much material...
Thirty-six years ago, as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, I saw the "mad major" test an incredible looking crate called a triplane- three wings, one below the other-top wing long, second shorter, third shortest. About 10,000 feet up over Spithead (the strip of water separating the mainland from the Isle of Wight) he made that crate do every trick . . . then put it in a dive and on the way down executed three close loops-one after the other...
...West Virginia. One million primitive Burmans are now ruled by five Nationalist generals, loyal to Li Mi. The National Salvation Army, says its commander, has its headquarters on the forested plateau east of the Salween River, where the Burmese, Siamese and Indo-Chinese borders meet. It maintains an air strip, has reliable radio contacts with the government of Formosa...
...Last week Meteorologist R. E. Falconer of General Electric Research Laboratory told about an electrical gadget that can tell when the jet-stream comes within 200 miles of Schenectady. The gadget "feels" the air for positive or negative charges, then writes its findings with a pen on a moving strip of paper. An unusually high positive reading means that the jet-stream is near...