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...experiment in the laboratory . . . But of what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude us, but if we do not try eternally for certainty, there is no point to education, and no need to spend money in sending our boys and girls to school...
...star of the show was the Vickers Valiant, a four-jet, swept-wing bomber, which British airmen are already calling "the aircraft of the year." It has more range, speed, altitude and load-carrying capacity than the Canberra, which holds the speed record over the Atlantic and is being mass-produced for the U.S. Air Force by Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore...
Powerful and streamlined, the Valiant looks like an overgrown fighter, with its four jets so completely buried in the wing-roots that it seems to have no engines at all. Said one U.S. Air Force officer: "The damned thing looks as if it were going 600 m.p.h. when it's just sitting still on the runway...
Planes of the Future. The P-1067, Supermarine 508 and Valiant have already reached the production stage. Other standouts: the four-jet Short SA4 bomber, the Vickers Supermarine Swift, giant cargo-carriers, turbo-prop torpedo planes, transports and helicopters. Britain also has newer designs still being developed...
...Tribesman was getting ready to sail this week. Her strange and valiant cargo: 63 men & women missionaries, with 20 children, bound for South America, to bring the Gospel to the wildest savages they could find...