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Around the town hall of suburban Saint-Denis swirled a crowd of clamorous Parisian mothers one day last week. Voices cracking, beet-faced with anger, recklessly hoisting their hungry, squalling children aloft, the rioters screamed for milk. In suburban Brunoy and Suresnes more mobs gathered. Excitement mounted. Rocks flew...
...accomplished what every carrier's commander most fears: With his flight deck immediately out of service, fighter planes could not go up for protection, and Rear Admiral Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster had no defense but his anti-aircraft and the few fighters already in air. Those aloft could not return for refueling, would have to use an air base at Malta. The attack was a great deal more severe than a previous attack on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, pictures of which last week reached the U. S. (see cuts...
Last week the Bell Airacobra (P-39), already in production, was ready for its final test dive. For four days Test Pilot Andrew McDonough, on a busman's holiday from Eastern Airlines' Miami-Chicago run, had had her aloft feeling her out, making longer and faster dives as pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped...
When Manhattan reporters asked his views on French politics, crafty little onetime French Premier Camille Chautemps, who conveniently charged himself with a private mission to the Americas during the Riom trials, lifted his six-month-old daughter Antoinette from her nurse's arms, held her aloft for all to see, replied: "Look, gentlemen. There is the greatest work of my life...
...week over the brown hills of Greece-by state decree. In Athens, traffic cops stopped cars to tell drivers what had happened. Newsboys shouted it, innkeepers told their guests. A commemorative postage stamp was ordered. Greek and British flags broke out everywhere and men in British uniforms were carried aloft by cheering, singing Greeks. In the northwest, on the other side of the tumbled Pindus Mountains-a place almost as hard to reach from Athens as the other side of the Rockies is from Washington, D. C.-the little catamount Greek Army, supported by the R. A. F., had finally...