Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from the little, bullet-stippled one-story airport in seaside Manzanillo, in the shadow of the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, hijacking was getting to be a bit of a bore. But Piedra and his Flight 482 never landed at their destination, Holquin. Next morning the rebels sent word that the DC-3 and its 25 passengers...
...completed 12 out of 20 passes in the half, all of them flat and bullet-fast, arrowing directly into the hands of his receivers. He carried the ball only three times, but these netted him 25 yards and two touchdowns. And his play-calling showed real cleverness and poise, especially in the clutch...
...shooting was Chicago-style, but the setting was Moscow. A cop surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...looks more like a missile than an airplane. A sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more...
...first four games, came to life. In their half of the sixth, they zeroed in on Pitcher Lew Burdette just as if he had never beaten them three times running in the 1957 series, piled up six runs in their first sustained scoring outburst of the series. Bullet Bob Turley, blasted out in the first inning at Milwaukee when he pushed his fast ball up to the plate too enticingly, produced a suddenly dipsy curve to baffle the Braves with a scrawny five hits and breeze to a 7-0 victory...