Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital out of Russia's recent small concessions to the Austrians, has reportedly planned a trip to Moscow in hopes of "buying" a removal of Soviet occupation forces from the country. According to British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, reporting last week from Vienna to London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded out Russia via New Delhi, to inquire whether the Russians would be prepared to sign the Austrian peace treaty "if Austria pledged itself to complete neutrality." The reply, through India's Nehru: "Neutrality not sufficient. Molotov...
...Senator arrived on time and so did the revolution. At 7 a.m. a group of youths -some only 14 years old-belonging to the right-wing, anti-government Socialist...
Back to conduct, after an absence of 34 years, was 78-year-old Pierre Monteux, who will head the Met's French wing (Faust, Pélleas et Mèlisande, Carmen) this season. Nothing about the new production startled him: "Everyone knows all of it, no? The music, it is très aimable. There can be no surprises...
...principle is not exactly new. It has been used by houseflies and other flying insects for perhaps 200 million years. Behind each wing a fly has small, ball-tipped rods that vibrate rapidly. If these "halteres" are cut off, the fly is like an airplane lost in a cloud with all its instruments out of order. It goes into a spin and crashes...
Died. Lieut. General James Tillinghast ("Nuts") Moore, 58, oldtime (since 1921) aviator, who led the First Marine Air Wing in the Southwest Pacific in World War II, and later commanded all Marine aircraft in the Pacific; of a heart attack; in Columbia...