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...slipstream and propwash. Air Force Lieutenant Thomas Ansberry took the C-123 up from 1,600 to 3,000 ft., let down flaps, slowed his plane to about 70 knots. With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet. His lips time and time again mutely formed "Please, please, please...
With the possibility of still more major sports to come, it was felt that the simplest and best course was to standardize the sweater, making distinctions only between major and minor letters by varying the size of the letter. The major letter is 7 1/2 inches high, compared to the 4 3/4 inch minor letter. About 200 letters in major sports are presented every year...
...restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed at all African political meetings. But by last week the whites were beginning to realize that in order to protect their own inch, they might yet have to give Mboya a measure of his mile. A first meeting between black and white was held to discuss council reform, and at least one wise Kenya official admitted: "Some increase in African representation is justified and necessary." Says Mboya confidently: "Rule of this country by the majority...
...Each inch of draft carved from connecting channels will permit large lake ships to carry about 100 more tons of cargo. This will bring bigger, faster, more modern ships onto the world's busiest inland waterway, clip the Duluth-Cleveland voyage from seven days to five, cut lake shipping costs by 15? to 18? a ton, save shippers $10 million a year. It will also unlock the lakes for large-scale foreign trade. Some shippingmen predict that by 1965 Great Lakes-overseas traffic will go up tenfold, and the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. optimistically forecasts that...
...been fanned by the jurisdictional dispute over another G.I. who is charged with manslaughter, Hokkaido Shimbun said that the riots were "primarily attributable to American racial prejudice and superiority complex." The usually pro-American Mainichi Shimbun exulted: "The incident proves an old saying: 'Even a worm one inch long is one-half inch of spirit.'" In Bangkok the middle-of-the-road daily Satirapharp cautioned: "The incident on Formosa has taught us that we must not let too many Americans come to our country...