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Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba found soothing companionship in 24-year-old Elyane Vermeirsch, auburn-haired daughter of a Belgian art dealer whom Lumumba first met in Brussels seven months ago. Spotting her at a London press conference fortnight ago, Lumumba invited Elyane to join his transatlantic turbojet as "interpreter, secretary and adviser" for his ten-day trip to the U.S. and Canada. "What girl would not have taken the opportunity?" she breathed. "I just love to travel...
...They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost surely be coaxed to altitudes close...
...minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel Castro agreed to pay $150 each for 24,000 Belgian automatic rifles worth $75 each. The fancy equipment is often short-lived. Days after Ecuador got three Canberra turbojet bombers, a mechanic cracked up two of them taxiing on the landing strip...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT expects its best commercial-transport year in 1959, will deliver 112 turbojet Electras valued at $260 million (previous record: $203 million), set up a new Electronics and Avionics Division...
...With present technology, a nuclear turbojet engine would offer only the advantage of endurance, and this already is largely overcome by long-range and in flight refueling techniques for faster-flying jets; moreover, both jets and the nuclear plane will soon be made obsolete by missiles...