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Japanese Communist leaders knew about the North Korean invasion at least ten weeks before it happened, Rodger A. Swearingen, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center, said yesterday in a radio interview...
...Swearingen stated that Japanese and Korean Communists held a secreet meeting in Japan early in April 1950. They discussed joint plans for guerilla activity to support the invasion...
After repeating the experiment many times, Swearingen decided that if a passenger is sitting less than 7½ inches from the window (i.e., in the window seat) he will be "captured" by the outrushing air. Farther away (i.e., in the aisle seat), a passenger would be safer...
...test this conclusion, Swearingen himself sat in the aisle seat. When the window blew out, the inner seat rose in the air, spun around and tried to ram itself through the window. Swearingen's body jerked slightly as the air clawed at it. He insisted that he was in no danger, but other CAA men testified that "he couldn't light a cigarette for five minutes afterward...
Another danger of high-altitude flying is "anoxia" (lack of oxygen). If a pressurized plane should suddenly lose its air at 40,000 ft., the passengers, according to Swearingen, would lose consciousness in seven seconds, die in 45 seconds. Loss of pressure at 40,000 ft., said a CAA man, "is a complete catastrophe-like a wing falling...