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This summer the Air Force will evaluate a new jet target, the Ryan Firebee, which it hopes will help solve the problem. The Firebee is an ugly little pilotless airplane, built like a potbellied bug with swept-back wings. It is only 17 ft. 3 in. long, and its wing span is 11 ft. 2 in. But its belly contains a real jet engine with 1,000 Ibs. of thrust, which gives it maximum speed at sea level of 610 m.p.h. At 40,000 ft. it can fly for an hour and 20 minutes at 575 m.p.h. This...
...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
...stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then hit upon the idea of a head of Pallas Athene, a goddess associated with an impressive variety of womanly virtues and no vices either womanly or godlike...
...years in the House of Commons, Bessie Braddock has irritated, amused and disgusted other M.P.s, but has ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor...
Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk...