Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane commander, Major Luther Lyles, thought they were Iranians or Turks, quickly changed his mind when they started firing. Lyles lowered his landing gear-"to indicate we were under their control"-and ordered everybody into chutes. Seconds later the MIGs made a second firing pass, set an engine and wing tank ablaze. Lyles gave orders to bail out, and five men did. Then he looked around for a place to set down, just made it to a 2,000-ft. Soviet air force emergency dirt landing strip. The MIGs followed the C118 down. One of them made another firing pass...
Cuba. Forty-seven Americans-30 sailors and marines, 17 civilians, most of them sugar and nickel company employees -were rounded up in eastern Cuba and herded into the mountains by rebel guerrillas headed by Raúl Castro, left-wing brother of Cuba's Rebel Boss Fidel Castro (see HEMISPHERE). U.S. Consul in Santiago de Cuba Park Wollam and Vice Consul Robert Wiecha jeeped into the hills, talked with rebel leaders, got a promise that Americans would be let go, set up a Navy helicopter lift that began hauling out the prisoners a handful at a time...
...first time since the war, a trade unionist was included in the Cabinet: Giulio Pastore, the head of the anti-Communist labor federation, CISL, became Minister for Economic Development of Southern Italy and Depressed Areas. Fanfani dropped Giuseppe Pella, a leader of the Christian Democrats' right wing, as Foreign Minister and took the post himself...
...Brief for Capitalism. Fanfani's idea of socialist adventuring stems from his long espousal of Italian left-wing Catholicism. Ever since his first days as professor of economics at Milan's Catholic University, Fanfani has argued the moral responsibility of both church and state to look after the needs of the people, and has had little brief for capitalism-at least the type of capitalism that Italy has long known. Said Fanfani in Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, one of the 16 books he has written: "Capitalism requires such a dread of loss, such a forgetfulness of human brotherhood...
...tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...