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Recently, after a chat with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Edward Corsi complained: "He was sympathetic but his mind appeared to be elsewhere, on the big international things, Quemoy and Matsu. " Last week the problem of Edward Corsi thrust itself forcefully upon Dulles-and the front pages-along with the big international things...
...last week, one of the most extraordinary extortion plots in criminal history exploded-literally-in Portland's big (twelve stories), crowded Meier & Frank department store. Just after 2 o'clock a woman had thrust through the credit window an envelope addressed to the store's president, Aaron Frank, and left. Inside the envelope was a note warning that in the block-square building were planted two bombs, the first set to explode "by the time you receive this message." As Frank was reading the note on the twelfth floor, an explosion rocked the third floor, shattering windows...
...futuristic-looking machine uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...
...athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which scores points only when its point touches...
...State John Foster Dulles was not inclined to discuss the publication of the documents. At Washington's National Airport, as Dulles departed for a visit to Canada, a reporter asked why the papers were made public. The usually composed Dulles flushed, stepped away from the microphones and thrust his face close to the reporter's. "I'm not going to stand here at this time to make a statement about Canada," he said, "and have a question like that shot at me." Then he strode furiously to his plane, leaving Canadian Ambassador Arnold Heeney behind...