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...Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
Last year the crewmen achieved their best record since 1948. The varsity team won the Goldthwaite Cup for the twelfth time, but came in second in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges behind the undefeated team of the University of Pennsylvania. The JV team was undefeated...
...ground strewn with children's things-a boy's pair of skis, a doll, party dresses for a little girl. The C-54 carried 23 men, seven women, nine children. Three Army families, bound home from Alaska, were completely wiped out. Of the 39 passengers and crewmen on board, 36 were dead; a soldier died later of burns. It was the ninth crash of military aircraft during three weeks in the North Pacific area. The death toll...
...Then the crewmen make another power maneuver. They turn the ship so that its rocket motors are pointing forward. A brief blast from them reduces the ship's speed by 1,070 m.p.h. and puts it into an elliptical course which swings down toward the atmosphere. In its outer fringes, 50 miles up, air resistance heats the rocket's skin and wings to a brightly glowing red (1,300° F.), but the crew, protected by insulation and liquid-cooled windows, do not feel the heat. The ship glides on, part meteor, part airplane. Gradually its energy...
From Los Angeles' International Airport one morning last week, a Scandinavian Airlines DC-6B roared up through the smog and headed north. Its destination: Copenhagen, via the Arctic. To trim roughly 650 miles off the regular California-Europe flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne...