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Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France in 1960, and they have shared the struggle to make the hot little West African nation a going concern. Then, six months ago, Dia, back from a trip to Moscow, took a sharp left turn in his official policies. Moderate President Senghor disagreed violently with Dia's new line. Last week, in a showdown in the sunny capital of Dakar, Senghor shucked his old friend...
...heists a Liberty ship from the mothball fleet in the Hudson River and sails it to Boston-that tiny brain figures as how the Liberty ship will come in handy for the getaway, but it forgets to figure as how nobody in the gang can operate the overgrown pea pod...
...turbofan sucks in a larger mass of air than regular jet engines to produce greater thrust with less fuel. A fan, set just inside the air intake (see diagram), pulls in the air. then blasts about 60% of it out through openings on the side of the jet pod to provide just under 50% of the engine's total thrust. The rest of the air is directed into the engine's burning chamber. The engine produces 20% more thrust than a regular jet engine of similar capacity, while burning 20% less fuel on a transcontinental flight...
Twin tail cones swept back from the wings to form a goal-post-shaped rudder assembly. Even more unusual were its twin engines, hung fore and aft on its gracefully streamlined cabin pod. one pulling, one pushing. The plane was the Skymaster, Cessna Aircraft Co.'s newest entry in the race for the flying businessman's dollar. For Cessna, world's biggest private-planemaker, the Skymaster is a bold new venture aimed at procuring an even bigger slice than the 47% of the private-plane market the company...
...nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail a pea pod in a porringer...