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...flags of 14 nations made a fluttering rainbow above the portals of the House of Europe in Strasbourg. Inside, before a semicircle of 200 desks, Belgium's portly Paul-Henri Spaak, president of the Consultative Assembly, spoke heatedly. His pugnacious lower lip was thrust forward, his left hand plunged into a pocket, accenting his resemblance to Winston Churchill...
Last week, at Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Airport, greying Willard Custer was busy proving that his weird contraption can develop tremendous lift. Even when tied to a pole to prevent forward motion, its engines putting out only 800 lbs. of thrust, the 1,100-lb. plane rose slowly off the ground and hovered in perfect balance. And Custer is satisfied that the first brief flights made with his channel wing mark a milestone in aviation. More advanced models, he said, will take off almost vertically, fly faster than a conventional plane using the same power, land like a helicopter...
...result of this inadequate information, our armies, were wide open for the massive Chinese counter-thrust that rolled them back below the thirty-eighth parallel. General MacArthur suddenly revised his estimate of the Chinese forces upward from sixty to two hundred thousand troops and admitted his hopes of facing only a token volunteer force of Chinese were shattered. This revelation that his estimate of enemy force was based on hope and publicly announced Chinese policy spotlights the failure of his military intelligence service. And the man responsible for this failure, General Willoughby, cannot explain it away merely by exploding against...
...doing slings for fun as part of routine test nights. None of his fellow pilots have yet managed Zura's trick, but they know it requires a plane with the proper wings to prevent it from rolling out of the skidding, cartwheel turn. It also needs the powerful thrust of the Meteor's two jets, set just the right distance apart. And it needs Zura's confident touch on the controls...
...history for a hero. This time: Socrates.* It is not a very satisfactory sortie. Doubtless Socrates himself is partly to blame: however notable for dialogue, he was almost churlishly averse to drama. But Playwright Anderson is even more responsible. He has twisted Plato's Socrates into a symbol, thrust him into strange company, shown him off like a Hellenic quiz kid and, at moments, with quite unpoetic license, has wrenched him completely out of character and history out of focus...