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...wealth of information crackles in on the headsets of the pilot and his radarman. Ground radars are tracking the target and feeding their reports to a central station (location secret). Back come crisp directions for the local G.C.I. (Ground Control Intercept) to relay to the planes aloft. For a time there is nothing for the crew to do but fly the directed course at 600 m.p.h...
...forgotten a thing we knew 30 years ago. The aircraft will need cable with weight on it, and the message center will need a couple of fish poles [used to hold messages aloft so liaison planes can snap them up in flight]. By God, I haven't seen a message pickup since I've been here...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...flight symbolized the growth of aviation to a billion-dollar U.S. enterprise, with 1,542 planes which fan out over 170,000 miles of routes to every corner of the nation. At peak flying hours (5 to 6 p.m.), an average of more than 500 scheduled airliners is aloft, with some 11,000 people aboard. Day & night there...
...seizure of all American assets in China (estimated at more than $100 million worth of mission and business properties). Peking's propagandists hew to the hate-America, love-Russia line. A striking visual example was the recent Red China anniversary parade in Peking. Ranks of marchers bore aloft portraits of Mao (TIME, Nov. 6), and news pictures of the spectacle were apparently released for domestic propaganda. Other marchers carried images of Stalin. Pictures of these latter were sent to Moscow, and reached the West through Sovfoto, the Russian newspicture agency...