Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ring religious ceremony. At week's end Miller, having filed "further evidence of antiCommunism" with the State Department, got the passport for which he applied last May. State cautiously made it valid for only six months instead of the usual two-year period, but it freed Miller to wing to England this week with Mrs. Miller, who will forthwith step into the embrace of Sir Laurence Olivier in a new movie...
...Independence Party of wing-collared Premier Olafur Thors, alone in wanting the Americans to stay, got the largest popular vote, up 5% from the election three years ago, but Iceland's complicated electoral laws gave it only 19 seats in the Althing (parliament), a loss of two seats. An alliance of Progressive and Social Democrat parties won a commanding 25 seats (two short of majority). Holding the balance of power with eight seats: the Communists. They are strong among fishermen (the Soviet bloc has replaced Britain as the leading market for Iceland's main crop, fish...
Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...
After security agents ran a check on him to give him "Q" clearance-enabling him to share the Government's most highly classified secrets-Donovan went to work. He was installed in the White House East Executive Wing, where he studied documents and took exhaustive notes for almost two months. Then he began interviewing some 50 key Administration officials, all of whom had been instructed to speak freely. In all his research he made no approach to two possible sources: Jim Hagerty, whom he saw only twice casually in groups, and President Eisenhower himself...
Plastics & Ramjets. Gambling on the new Crusader, Detweiler threw most of his 2,000-man engineering force into the project. Though the first designs were approved by the Navy in May 1953, while C. V. was still under United's wing, the company had to build the plane on its own, used every trick to make sure the Crusader lived up to specifications, developed some of its own, e.g., transparent plastic fuel tanks and pipes to test the fuel flow in every conceivable position in advance. Within 22 months from the time C. V. won the design competition...