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People who believe in flying saucers got encouragement last week from the skeptical U.S. Air Force. On Jan. 29, an Air Force spokesman said, strange things were seen in the night sky over North Korea. The tail gunner and fire-control man of a B-29 over Wonsan saw a disk-shaped object that seemed to fly with a revolving motion. It was orange in color, and around its rim were small, bluish flames. For five minutes it flew along with the bomber at 200 m.p.h. Then it disappeared...
...scarred, crippled man wearing not one but two hearing aids hobbled painfully to the rostrum with the help of a pair of canes. A tail-coated usher darted forward to help hoist him to the speaker's platform. There he grasped a table for support and then gulped a handful of pills. A hush fell over France's Chamber of Deputies as Georges Heuillard, deputy from the Seine-Inférieure, began to speak. His misshapen body and his scarred, waxen face were his honorable credentials...
...judge had a ticklish task. Which one of the six dogs would he choose? English setter, wire-haired dachshund, Welsh terrier, Brussels griffon, standard poodle or Doberman pinscher? Each dog had been trained to the tail tip, each had survived a two-day ordeal of poking and prodding by judges. Each was the best of its breed and the best of its group. Now, from all the 2,451 dogs originally entered last week in the 76th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, the judge had to choose one as the best...
...form on its wings and control surfaces. They come and go, shift irregularly and sometimes exert enormous forces on the plane's structure. Many early airplanes that trespassed too far into the transsonic range were destroyed by galloping shock waves. The remedy is now understood: thinner wings and tail surfaces, and a quick passage through the danger zone. Above the transsonic, the designers hoped, the air would be easier to cope with. Shock waves would still form, but they would act predictably, like the bow waves of a ship. When the Bell X-1 flew faster than sound...
...mile-per-hour winds will whip through Cambridge until early evening on the tail of yesterday's sleet storm, the weather bureau predicted last night. The rain should end by early morning, follows by more snow and sleet...