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Instead, the fall of the Laniel government in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS) knocked still another hole in the West's armor, and exposed weaknesses both in Europe and Asia...
...train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what had happened under my nose, and by the time I interviewed the statesman I had forgotten it." Author Hecht describes this iron insensibility as a "katatonic armor [that] has served me frequently in my living. Whether it served me well or not, I have sometimes wondered." The quarter-million words of his autobiography, most of which reads like a cry from the soul of an armored car, should clear up this question once...
...Havilland has reported no clues. But there were dozens of possibilities. British airmen were inclined to discount the theory first advanced that a flying turbine blade had caused the wing fuel tanks to explode, since the last Comet to crash had special armor between engines and tanks (TIME, March 22). Most think it more likely that either the kerosene-type fuel, which becomes highly volatile at high altitudes, exploded, or that vapor from a leaking hydraulic line might have been touched off by a spark. Others guessed that the big jet's power-operated controls, which give the pilot...
...cups and bugles--horns are on everything except the script, which wears a beard. The second distinguishing detail is the frank presentation of propaganda for the Bolivian tin interests. What isn't made of horn in the picture is sure to be tin, including swords, shields, prison bars and armor...
...after losing a disabled jet, but in the Comet's case, a fire or explosion in the engines would be likely to damage the wing. At the time of the Elba crash, De Havilland was in the process of modifying its Comets to guard against this danger-adding armor-plated shields to prevent loosened blades from the turbine from being thrown into the fuel tanks, improving the "engine breathers," installing more fire detectors. These recent changes apparently made no difference in Yoke Yoke's case...