Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SINNOTT San Francisco ^f " Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it" (Jonathan Swift...
...Swift Reversal. Last week, suddenly aware that the Communists were gaining followers at his expense, the Mufti swiftly reversed ground. His smart propagandist, Emile el Hourey, a Lebanese Christian, dashed back from vacation, had the Mufti cable all Lebanon camps denying that he had agreed to their transfer...
Planes of the Future. The P-1067, Supermarine 508 and Valiant have already reached the production stage. Other standouts: the four-jet Short SA4 bomber, the Vickers Supermarine Swift, giant cargo-carriers, turbo-prop torpedo planes, transports and helicopters. Britain also has newer designs still being developed...
...Force calls its swift missile the "Matador," the airman's latest argument in the debate over close ground support. With it, the U.S. Air Force has the first operational pilotless missile which can plant an atomic bomb in support of U.S. troops in the field...
...less severely. The druggist's wife came down with the same symptoms; so did his three children. More patients fell ill. Dr. Risser got six frantic calls in one day. By mid-August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused by an elusive virus known as Coxsackie...