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Sopwith also turns out the Sapphire jet engine, whose 8,300-lb. thrust (at sea level) makes it, so the British claim, the world's most powerful in production.* And his new Gloster Javelin is the first fighter strong enough to use the full power ot these big engines. In test flights last week, the Javelin shot from the ground to higher than 30,000 ft., outrunning the sound of its own screaming jets. All its performance data is still carefully kept secret. But the R.A.F., which is thriftily chary of building anything but prototype planes, liked the Javelin...
...hand's thrust...
...Legend relates that two 16th century burghers of Worms were once arguing about the permanence of the new Protestant religion. One contended that Protestantism would soon die. The other, enraged, thrust his walking stick into the ground, shouting, "As certainly as this stick shall take root and grow into a tree, so also will Luther's faith remain." The stick, the story goes, grew into the 120-ft. Luther...
...Americans do more than just parry Russian thrusts in the war of words? When the Russians use the Big Lie technique on germ warfare, it seems that we merely counter their charges with denials. Instead we should thrust back with a countercharge
...lives in an unpretentious country manor 125 miles southeast of Paris has been watching and waiting for the jerry-built Fourth Republic to collapse at his feet, as he always said it would. General Charles de Gaulle, at 61, still believes that in the "hour of catastrophe" France will thrust aside its inefficient coalitions, and turn instead to the only political force which has uncompromisingly opposed every postwar government it could not control: his own militant Rally of the French People (R.P.F...