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Just what good does TIME'S Oct. 3 cover do for anyone except that by it you vent your spleen? (I vent mine on occasion by writing letters to editors.) I do not think that it helps to ease international tensions, no matter if it graphically presents an essential truth. Furthermore, I seriously question your judgment when you say, "Khrushchev was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power." Would it be petty if Russia set up its technicians in Cuba, made...
Married. Lieut. General (ret.) Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen. 81, World War II occupation governor of Belgium, who was imprisoned in 1944 by the Gestapo for his alleged part in an anti-Hitler conspiracy and from 1945 to 1951 by the Allies; and Cecile Vent, 54, wealthy Belgian also jailed by the Gestapo for underground work; both for the second time; in Nassau, Germany...
From the belly tank, empty at the time of explosion, to the trailing edge of the right wing ran a small vent through which fuel could drain in case dangerous pressure built up in the tank. The investigators believe that a lingering bit of St. Elmo's fire, instead of discharging normally from the special tassles on the plane, somehow found its way into the pressure vent and touched off the gas fumes. The fire raced back to the tank, blowing a hole in the right fuselage and exploding a wing tank that in turn blew off the right...
Lockheed confirmed the theory by building an experimental wing at its Burbank, Calif. plant and duplicating the explosion conditions. The cure was as simple as the cause of the crash had been tough to pin down: Lockheed installed a flame-arrester screen on the vent pipe openings of all its planes, thus hopefully eliminating another opportunity for St. Elmo's fire to turn from a good omen to tragedy...
...picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell-O-Vision" (which supplies every customer with his very own scent vent...