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...first man-carrying plane to exceed the speed of sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Now in the Smithsonian Institution, the chunky (34½ ft. long, 28 ft. wingspread) ship was built by Bell Aircraft Corp., had a rocket motor with 6,000 lbs. of thrust and was designed to fly more than 1,000 m.p.h...
...Rundstedt's command was a main spearhead in the conquests of Poland and France, and formed the stout southern arm of the Nazi thrust into Russia. But when the German attack in Russia slowed down, with winter coming, von Rundstedt counseled not only a halt but retreat. Hitler removed him. In 1942, with the U.S. in the war, Hitler made von Rundstedt Commander in Chief West, to prepare for the eventual Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch...
...Lawrence Lowell, according to his biographer, Henry Aaron Yeomans '00, "Thrust himself forward because he realized that a man who aspires to leadership must show his capacity to lead." And although Eliot supported Jerome D. Greene '96, secretary to the Corporation to succeed him, Lowell's "character, talents, background, and activity in the University" brought him the presidency...
...applications of atomic energy to the powering of flight presents a great challenge to power plant designers. Space trips will only be science fiction until a means of securing a sustained thrust from light fuels is devised...
...Sculptor John had finished two strong, roughly molded character studies done with the same sure hand as his best canvases. One shows his wife, "Dodo," gentle and clear-browed in golden bronze; the other is a salute to Ireland's famed poet, William Butler Yeats slit-eyed chin thrust inquisitively forward. Now John is happily working on a third, head of his daughter Vivien, which is still in the shape where the tobacco tins he thriftily uses as filler are not yet covered over...