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Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...North Dakota, the legislature pondered three bills which would ban 1) the practice of an individual's buying a round of drinks, 2) the sale of candy cigarettes, clearly a menace to young Dakotans, and 3) dancing in the dark (it enables people to drink unseen...
...phone to grasp. When the Nixon fund furor broke, it was Brownell who took charge. He talked to some of the wisest heads in the party, studied the legal implications of the fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press, spent several hours with Eisenhower, advised him to stick with Dick Nixon (although some of Nixon's friends were mistakenly convinced at the time that Brownell had advised Ike to dump Nixon). Before dawn, he was flying back to New York, thinking through some advice to Nixon...
...Morningside Drive, official residence of Columbia's president. His avowed intentions were to watch the Army-Navy game on TV and to pass a restful Sunday broken only by one conference. Republican bigwigs began to trek up to Morningside Drive, but Ike himself became a shadowy, unseen figure. Probable purpose of his self-imposed seclusion: to avoid pinpointing the time of his departure for Korea...
...will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn was slashed to death by Mau-Mau knifemen; in retribution, British troops rounded up every...