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...Fully armed and carrying a full load of fuel, the Air Force's brand-new F-86 set an unofficial world's speed record for level flight-669.75 m.p.h. The plane, a North American jet fighter with swept-back wings, was flown by Major Richard L. Johnson, 30, over a measured course at the National Air Races in Cleveland. The old record was 650.796 m.p.h. Speed of sound (at sea level): about 750 m.p.h...
...each of his three great decisions, 1915, 1938 and 1948, Benes did what seemed best at the time. No contemporary of Benes, anywhere, had a right to brand him as wrong. Yet as it worked out, his beloved Czechs today live under a yoke infinitely heavier than Franz Josef...
Except for a fine old stucco church on the weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S.-Brazilian organization called Servico Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service...
...MANHATTAN, the Communist Party asked for and was refused free time to answer ABC's blistering documentary, Communism-U.S. Brand...
Bridie was the child of a Protestant father and a Catholic serving-girl mother. In border County Fermanagh, that was enough to brand her. When Bridie was orphaned, she was disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired...