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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crashes and resultant 34 deaths in the last four months, the Air Force announced last week that it would soon begin to make structural modifications on its 1,400 SAC B-47d. Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
...Piedrahita took stock. By telephone, Forero proclaimed his insurrection "a romantic movement to restore the honor of the armed forces." Apparently he hoped to bargain for postponement of the election and formation of a new junta. Rumors racing through town that Rojas Pinilla was coming back took on added weight from the fact that the exiled military dictator last week left Lisbon, flew to Bermuda, bought a ticket for Barbados. But the armed forces stuck solidly behind the junta. Piedrahita was still free to take charge, and that was enough...
Archie cannot even think of the names of all the men he still has plans to fight. "I got to leave for Vancouver in the morning to get ready for whatsisname-that German," he announced. "I'm taking off weight so I can fight either Patterson for the heavyweight championship or Ray Robinson for my title. I'll get that knockout record soon. And I'm going to run it up so high that no one will ever beat...
Born. To Gregory Peck, 42, cinemactor, and Veronique Passani Peck, 26, onetime French reporter: a first daughter, second child (he has three sons by a previous marriage); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Cecilia. Weight...
Considering that five of the Crimson oarsmen are Sophomores, the win, and especially the excellent time, was not only surprising but increases hopes for the future performances of the heavy-weight crew...