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...Moscow, the Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
...your statement that "flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wild blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth." The problem is not that flying has become commonplace, but rather that it has been made very unattractive. The Air Force has been stolen from the flyers...
Faded Glamour. The unpleasant truth seemed to be that the stay-downers were a symptom of a whole complex of problems. For one thing, flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wide blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth. This year, for the first time, fewer than the allowable 25% of the graduating classes at West Point and Annapolis volunteered for flying training...
...Yonder a maid and her wight
...lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used, to know," I should go with him in the gloom Hoping it might...