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...airplane," Republic's Thunderchief will fly 2,000 miles without refueling, hit speeds of Mach 2-plus (1,400 m.p.h.), go high or low and deliver any kind of a bang the Air Force wants. As a tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds per minute and a bomb bay packing a heavier load, either conventional or nuclear, than a World War II B-17 bomber. Since the Thunderchief can carry either an H-bomb or Abomb...
...jaded, well-heeled tourist who has been everywhere, Kenya has something new in jungle sumptuousness. When his jet plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up before the lush green lawns of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. Stretching away to either side are bamboo forests where roam the elephant and rhinoceros. Above towers snow-clad Mount Kenya, soaring 17,040 ft. into the equatorial sky. At sunset, guests are thrilled by the throb of tribal drums...
...Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport this week, she will whisk into an itinerary that, for all the press of excited planning across Canada, hews to cozy informality. Banished is the usual stuffy round of honor-guard reviews, cornerstone layings, garden parties. Tarrying for only a day or less in such cities as Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, the Queen will see more...
Host Humphrey had a limousine waiting at the airport to whisk Ike to the 1,200-acre preserve of the exclusive (ten members) Cedar Point Gun Club on a marshy shore of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay. The afternoon was discouragingly sunny and windy. "Too bright," said Humphrey. "On days like this the ducks fly high. A cloudy, gloomy day would be better." But Ike, hunting from an aluminum punt with Club Manager Cornelius Mominee as his guide and duck caller, quickly bagged his legal daily limit of four birds, all mallards. His shotgun: a short-barreled, 20-gauge...
...Whisk War. In 1827, angered by an intricate financial deal in which he felt he was being cheated by the French government, Khoja Hussein, the last Dey of Algiers, called in French Consul Pierre Deval, charged him with being a "wicked, faithless, idol-worshiping unworthy," and struck him three times with a peacock-feather fly whisk. After brooding over this outrage for three years, France finally saw it as an opportunity, sent General Louis de Bourmont and 37,000 men sailing south from Toulon. Within three weeks of their landing, De Bourmont's troops paraded in triumph through Algiers...