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...fight was termed "uneventful" by members of the seven-man crew. Possible trouble was avoided narrowly when, on landing, an oil leak was discovered in the number one engine. The leak apparently developed just as the plane was coming in to land at the Lockheed Air Terminal...
...name was included in a list of Mussolini's secret police, OVRA. Investigation showed, said the Government, that Pucci had acted as a spy inside the Vatican and reported on anti-Fascist activities of the Catholic Action group. (In 1931, Pope Pius XI, fearing a Vatican leak, had sent Msgr. Spellman to Paris to publish the famed anti-Fascist Encyclical Non Abbi-amo Bisogno...
Ghostlike Baruna, the favorite to repeat her 1938 victory, sprang a bad leak half way to Bermuda, but kept her pumps going and got all possible good out of her big Genoa jib. She got to Bermuda first (in 5 days, 3 minutes) but didn't win. By the time all the intricate mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president...
Justices fought each other by feeding their own accounts of the court's battles to newsmen and columnists, violating the confidences of the court and creating a flood of gossip. In fact, it was a leak to a columnist which had brought on Justice Jackson's blast...
Last week Washington atomic insiders let a little information leak out. A really "super" bomb existed only in the minds and notebooks of atomic idealists. It was theoretically possible, but exceedingly difficult to construct. The best the bomb-fanciers could do for the present, they thought, would be to step up the destructive power of the Nagasaki-type (Model-T) bomb about one hundred times...