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...Master looked considerably thinner but very fit.* He ate heartily, drank only half of his glass of California sauterne, and sat thoughtfully oversmoking through the banquet. For the benefit of the Teamsters, the band played Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream, while Franklin Roosevelt made penciled notes on his manuscript. Then it was time to go on the air, before the millions of citizens who were also asking: Has he still...
Twice he went before the parole board to plead for freedom, and was twice refused. Last week, after three years and ten months behind the walls, he went before the parole board for the third time. He was now 67. His ruddiness was gone, and he looked thinner; his hair was white. He talked quietly, affably, but the suspense under which he was obviously laboring crept into his voice. The board conferred, granted him his parole. Then they laid down the terms under which he can keep his freedom when he goes into the world again on Sept. 12, with...
...gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...
...heat wilted their khaki and soaked their hats. He stood there for a long moment, looking about him, blinking under the sun of a land he had never seen before. Then slowly Charles de Gaulle moved down the ramp, looking even taller than his 6 ft. 4 in., even thinner than his pictures. As his foot touched the ground, the 17-gun salute to a general roared into the hazy heat (four guns less than the salute for the head of a state). The faint est smile passed across the grey, impassive face of Charles de Gaulle...
...plane's wings and propeller. The wider the curve, the faster the air travels. This accelerated air, moving faster than the plane, may reach supersonic speeds and create local shock waves, known to airmen as "compressibility burble." Designers have reduced this hazard by giving wings and propellers thinner leading edges; these are now shaped more like a knife than a teardrop. But the biggest advance is the jet-propelled plane. The part of a plane that first feels supersonic effects is its whirling propeller, whose tips reach a very high speed. By eliminating the propeller entirely, the jet-propelled...