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Republic made other news last week. It delivered to the Air Force its first production model of the F-84F Thunderstreak, a swept-wing version of the F-84 Thunderjet, the top fighter-bomber in Korea and a mainstay of the NATO air force. Capable of 700 m.p.h., the new Thunderstreak is powered by Britain's Sapphire engine, made in the U.S. by Curtiss-Wright (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950). It can carry a small atom bomb, has a range of more than 2,000 miles (considerably more than the current Thunder jet), and can be refueled in flight...
...mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...start a new trend in naval aircraft. Today's high speeds, said the Secretary, mean that planes must be stronger than ever to stand the strain. The size and weight of a seaplane hull is hardly more of a drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray. And the hydro-ski, a beefed-up version of the sportsman's waterski, has given the seaplane the biggest boost...
Sometimes the surge toward self-reliance bursts into the kind of truculence, resentment or restiveness that sets American taxpayers to muttering about rank ingratitude. In Britain, the yellow press makes cheap capital out of the so-called "G.I. problem," involving 35,000 U.S. servicemen manning U.S. bomber bases there. In Italy, a U.S. official reported that he could detect "by osmosis" that Italians are getting a little tired of U.S. advice...
...found his crews living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...