... THE SUCCESS OF THE VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AIRCRAFT THE U.S. NAVY'S CONVAIR XFY-I IN HORIZONTAL FLIGHT ABOVE ITS TINY RUNWAY The Pogo fighter plane flies at more than 500 m.p.h. during a test flight over San Diego, in California. The arrow at right points to the area, only 50 ft. square, on the Lindbergh Field runway, which this vertical take-off aircraft requires to take off and to land. The ...

... PRINCE BERNHARD TAKES THE SALUTE AT A PASSING-OUT PARADE Watched by a vast gathering of spectators, Royal Air Force Cadets march past the Royal visitor during the Passing-Out Parade of No. 65 Entry at the R.A.F. College at Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Prince Bernhard, who wore the uniform of an honorary Air Vice-Marshal of the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, also presented awards. These included the ...

... THE BISHOP OF DURHAM LEADS 3,000 PILGRIMS ACROSS THE WET SANDS TO HOLY ISLAND, OFF THE NORTHUMBERLAND COAST Dr. A. M. Ramsey (second from right), accompanied by priests who include the Venerable B. B. Shrisunder, Arch deacon of Urangabad, India, crosses to the island s church to take part in the annual service. He preached at the service conducted in the open air by the Bishop of Jarrow. The ...

... A 33,000-TON ORE CARRIER AFTER HER LAUNCHING The Leader is seen as she lurches when entering the fitting-out basins at the Cammell Laird shipyards at Birkenhead. Earlier she had been launched at the Company's yards by Mrs. I. M. Wilson, wife of the President of the Aluminium Company of America. The launching of this 33,000-ton vessel, which has been built to carry ore for the Pan-Ore Steamship ...

... Monarch Loads the Transatlantic Cable The British Cable Ship Takes on 1,300 Nautical Miles of Coaxial Telephone Cable for the First Deep Sea Laying Operations T ast Saturday the cable ship Monarch left England on what the Postmaster-General described as the most important assignment in the history of submarine telephony. The first deep-sea section of the transatlantic telephone cable is to ...

... THE^ PHYSIC GARDEN AT CHELSEA It lies at the side of the Thames Embankment. The statue, by Rysbrack, is of Sir Hans Sloane, who presented the site to the Apothecaries' Society in 1722. Under his bequest botanical specimens are grown in the Garden, and rare trees are now another feature. Each year a large number of students comes to work here. The general public is admitted to the Garden by ticket. ...

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... JM 'V I Al MB PRINCESS MARGARET ON THE EVE OF HER TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY--HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, WHO CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY ON SUNDAY, ACCOMPANIES THE QUEEN'S CHILDREN TO BALMORAL FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY'S SUMMER HOLIDAY She is seen with Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, and Princess Anne, disembarking from H.M.Y. Britannia at Aberdeen at the end of the Royal Family's cruise round the coast of ...

... SIR EDMUND HILLARY INSPECTS EQUIPMENT FOR THE TRANS- ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Watched by Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir John Slessor, he is modelling an anorak especially designed and made in nylon furleen by Astraka for members of the expedition. The anorak forms the top half of complete suits made in 100 per cent, nylon. Sir Edmund is leader of the expedition, advance parties of which will be ...

... Violence by Nature and Man Hurricane Connie on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Political Agitation with Violence in Vietnam and Colombia IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE CONNIE-- THE DEVASTATION AT WILMINGTON BEACH The front of this North Carolina resort is littered with the roots of shrubs and trees after the hurricane had struck. The hotel at right, which was damaged by Hurricane ...

... Fears that this would be One of the Worst Years Ever were Confirmed on the First Day of Grouse Shooting Last Week A HOPEFUL PAIR ON A SCOTTISH MOOR Major G. Knox Finlay sets his dog after a bird on Colonel Frank Douglas' moor at Lochan, in Perthshire. ONE OF THE PARTIES OUT ON THE TWELFTH Colonel Frank Douglas and his party, a total of seven guns, make their way up a hill at the start of their ...

... An Epic OF THE Alps The Dramatic Aircraft Rescue from 10,700 ft. of Two Trapped Climbers from Britain A dramatic rescue by aeroplane from an Alpine mountain-top took place early last week. Two young British climbers, Raymond Couzens, a twenty-two-year-old physicist from Thornton Heath, Surrey, and William Peake, a nineteen-year-old under graduate, of Warrington, Lancashire, were members of a ...