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...world's longest straightedge is the 6½-mile track at the Air Force Missile Development Center, N. Mex., which has started to flight-test missiles while they are still on the ground. The virtues of this system are many. Instead of destroying itself in a single flight, a missile shot along the track can be recovered undamaged and tested many more times. It can be timed accurately and photographed at close range...
...longest-running team in show business began applying the brakes last week in Hollywood. After 36 years as the better half of Burns and Allen, pretty, professionally giddy Gracie, still slim and girlish at 53, announced that she will retire in May. "I'm going to sleep for six months," she said. "I'm going to invite people in to dinner, and visit my grandchildren. And I'm going to clean out the bureau drawers...
Among the retreating colonial powers, the French have clung longest to the savage techniques of imperialism's unhappy past. In 1945, when Algerians killed some 100 French in a local uprising in the Constantine area, the French retaliated by bombing and strafing towns, killed some 20,000 Algerians before calling a halt; in 1946 French warships and artillery bombarded Haiphong, killing some 10,000 Vietnamese; in 1947 the French wiped out entire villages in putting down a revolt in Madagascar, killing some 40,000 men, women and children...
KOHLER STRIKE, longest in U.S. history, is next target of Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate special investigating committee. Aim is to pinpoint acts of violence since U.A.W. struck Wisconsin plumbing-fixture firm 46 months ago. Top witnesses: Kohler Boss Herbert V. Kohler, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther...
Aeroflot already reaches 16 foreign countries from Norway to North Korea, flies 58,000 route miles v. 64,000 for Pan American World Airways, the longest U.S. flag carrier. Last month Aeroflot won Britain's approval for flights to London, is expected to start service next fall. Now Aeroflot is dickering for landing rights in France and Holland, is expected to go after rights in the U.S. as soon as it gets enough long-range jets to fly from Moscow to New York, probably within the year...