Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potted Chicken? As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired...
Beyond the Pages. As satire, Monocle falls somewhat short of Jonathan Swift -who may have been the last satirist to make a decent living. But Swift and Monocle chose the same targets: politics, pettifoggery and government. "I haven't checked these figures," began Monocle's Gettysburg Address as it might have been written by Dwight Eisenhower, "but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country. I don't like to appear to take sides...
Sweden, which generally plays it lightly, last week was in an uproar about sex. The cause was a petition of protest to King Gustav VI Adolf signed by 140 eminent Swedish physicians, including the King's own doctor. Their plea to the monarch and to the government: take swift steps to stop sexual laxity, which "is a menace to the vitality and health of the nation...
...encouraging end to a week that had started tensely in the Security Council. There, in two successive meetings, delegates made predictable speeches-U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Britain's Sir Patrick Dean calling for swift establishment of a peacekeeping force on the turbulent island, while Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko depicted Cyprus as the innocent victim of a dastardly NATO plot, and Greece's Dimitri Bitsios argued that the island's "very existence" was threatened by invasion from Turkey...
...real problem is back home on the range, where too many people are raising too much cattle. Last year, as cattlemen held their cows off the market in hopes of higher prices, the U.S. herd expanded by 6% to 106 million head worth $13.5 billion. Swift, Armour and other packers are feeding much of their own cattle in direct competition with the independent cattlemen; so are such supermarket chains as Food Fair and National...