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...Voice of America and self-labeled Stevenson Democrat) begin with the sound premise that in the Roosevelt and early Truman Administrations, a number of Communists and fellow travelers slipped into the Federal Government. This fact, Rorty and Decter point out, gave McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their McCarthy ledger begins to go blank...
...Pajama Game (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy Jr., Carol Haney, Stanley Prager; Columbia LP). The song list of the George Abbott-Richard Bissell hit has a few nifties: Hey There, Her Is, There Once Was a Man (a satire on hillbilly tunes), and Hernando's Hideaway (a take-off on tangos...
...Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...
...indicated this week that the search for a high-speed aircraft able to take off and land vertically (helicopters are relatively slow) may be over. It released photographs of two strange experimental fighter planes, the Lockheed XFV1 and the Convair XFY-1, both of which are designed to take off straight up, without the need for runways of any kind, and to land tail-down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply...
...then somersaulted over at 7 ft., half an inch over the record. As a topper, Browning cleared 7 ft. 2 in., to resounding roars from the crowd. Browning's coach, Charlie Pond, growlingly challenged anyone to prove that his star pupil did not use a one-footed take-off as required by high-jumping rules...