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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Ruth Roman in Spin into Darkness...
...wrestled BOAC, Britain's state-owned airline, out of its postwar tail spin stepped away from the controls last week with a blast at "irksome political interference." After turning a 1948 loss of $30 million into a 1954 profit of $4,000,000, Sir Miles Thomas, 59, quit as BOAC chairman and chief executive...
...echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition": "A society of no open conflicts, where gossip is the only expression of feeling, is unhealthy. If an emotion does not exhaust itself on its proper object, it can never exhaust itself and becomes an endless spin of talk. We need more directness, more active awareness...
...beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned, Monique had become just another concubine. They gasped twice again when Monique had two babies by the King, then forgot...
...target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons' range, the pilot throws a switch, and the Falcons wake up. Their little gyros spin; the antennae in their noses search for the enemy. What the Falcons' delicate senses are looking for is a stream of radar pulses reflected from the target. When they "see" it, their radars lock into place...