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...could tell them how to make a supersonic airplane fly safely at slow speeds, i.e., below 650 m.p.h. At Mach 2, very small wings will give sufficient lift. If they are made bigger, to give lift at low speed, they stir up too much drag. So the tiny wings of the X3, designed for efficiency and minimum drag at very high speed, make the ship unstable and cranky when it is flying below the speed of sound. This is one reason why Bill Bridgeman quietly denounced the X-3 as a "nasty little beast." When he does...
...Senator Edwin Johnson, one of the staunchest advocates in Congress of CBS color, recently swung to RCA, wrote Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "Your efforts in devising a compatible television system will long be remembered as a magnificent achievement of science . . . There may be those who may desire to drag their feet at this point. Please do not allow them to slow you down. Please keep up the steam...
...spending more money on Indo-China now, the United States may end a war that would otherwise drag on indefinitely, and at the same time gain the confidence of the people of Vietnam. We hope that this type of clear thinking will characterize the new State Department policy in Asia...
Nobody can guess how long it may drag on, how far Mau Mauism may spread, how infectious its example might prove to be. What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya...
Light on significance, the play is also light on story: the angels tend to drag their wings here & there, and things are so topsy-turvy that it is the villains who eventually prove dull. But most of the time, under José Ferrer's deft direction, the show gaily ripples along. As angel-in-chief, Falstaffian Walter Slezak is steadily delightful...