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Those who are looking for a scapegoat will undoubtedly aim their fire in the general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
...aircraft builders were ready to go whenever anyone placed an order. Lockheed, whose Constellation is a prime target for the Comet to shoot at, has plans for a 40-passenger jet transport which it thinks could keep pace with the Comet and cost no more than a Connie to operate. Douglas also has commercial jets, stalemated at the paper stage. So does Boeing, which said, perhaps overoptimistically, that it could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract. But Boeing's Vice President Wellwood E. Beall warned that Congress would have to act soon. Said...
When he got back to his mother's second-story flat on River Road in Camden, N.J. after the war, he set up a basement target range, collected pistols, knives and bullets, and spent hours poring over the Scriptures. He was not popular, seemed unable to stick to a job. The neighbors in the little business block around his mother's flat decided he was a "religious...
...both sides of the Channel, newsmen mobilized enough equipment to report a medium-sized war: rocket signals, marine radios, walkie-talkies, telescopes, carrier pigeons, eight boats and three planes. But Shirley May's target date (Aug. 14) came & went. Reporter Bob Musel, ghosting her diary for N.E.A. and covering the story for United Press, blamed repeated postponements on training hitches and bad weather. Delicately, he skirted the main reason, which Editor & Publisher reported as "a delay due to a monthly occurrence peculiar to women...
...minus five minutes," chanted Commander Murphy. A guard at a roadblock (all roads across the target range are closed before the firing) reported that a car had broken through the blockade. "To hell with him," said Commander Murphy, "X minus three minutes...