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...W. L. VENNING JR. Boise, Idaho
...ELISE W. HEALD Hopkins. Minn...
...rare gesture of across-the-Curtain appreciation, the top-drawer Soviet Union Academy of Sciences awarded membership to 30 non-Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
...were often as highhanded as they were spectacular. Covering Europe in 1914, he charmed the German high command into letting him break the news that the submarine U-9 had sunk three British battleships ("the greatest setback the British navy has ever suffered"). So dazzled by Swope was James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, that he disclosed confidential reports that Germany planned to launch submarine attacks against U.S. ships. Swope's story was promptly denied by the State Department, promptly confirmed by history...
...first complete transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back again was accomplished by Bell Aircraft Corp. at Niagara Falls on May 24, when Test Pilot David W. Howe lifted the X-14 vertically off the runway. He hovered for a few seconds, then flew horizontally at 160 m.p.h. Returning to the airport, he came to a full stop ten feet off the ground, made a 180° hovering turn, and settled down on the surface...