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...butts, waited while beaters waving red & white flags drove 9,000 pheasants into the morning air. Then the firing started. After four sweeps, the shooting party moved on to an artificial lake where white-jacketed gamesmen dragged roped bells across the water, sending about 100 wild ducks aloft. The guns went off again. Some of the high scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands (132 birds), the Duke of Edinburgh (103), President Auriol (61). Following the morning's activity, lunch was served to the guests, including Queen Juliana, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn, SHAPE'S Matthew...
...fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...
...Stratocruisers. Northwest claimed the planes had so many bugs in them that they had cost Northwest $6,000,000 to put them in flying shape (the suit was later withdrawn). Northwest had even more trouble in 1951, when its pilots refused to take Northwest's Martin 2025 aloft after five of them had crashed (TIME, April 23, 1951). The line had to ground 20 planes, then later sold them. With rented planes and Government contracts to fly the Pacific airlift, the line showed a profit in 1951. But in the first six months of this year, the airline lost...
...Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves of air that oscillate in the lee of California's High Sierra (TIME, Oct. 1) U.S. pilots in pressurized gliders have climbed to 42,100 ft.; over California's Coast Range they have stayed aloft 12 hrs. 3 min.-both world records...