| Show W Were We're re Next Door Neighbors Now Milton Reynolds year old millionaire manufacturer has hasset hasset hasset set a a new world the flying speed record His Reynolds Bombshell completed a mile flight around the globe in 78 hours hours' and 55 minutes This record was more than 12 hours better than that set by Howard Hughes in 1938 but considering the thero ro route te traveled by bythe bythe bythe the two planes the Reynolds record was as far superior Hughes flew across Soviet Russia which cut his flying distance to less than miles mUes On the other hand the Bombshell around the world by way of Egypt India China and Japan a mu much h honger longer distance and still stUl made the trip in m much ch faster time e. e Still more remarkable is the fact that the he Bom Bombshell shell was dogged by b bad d luck almost from the start It broke its radio on the he leg eg across the Atlantic Its Its Its' tail wheel was was loosened on the Cairo leg It h had d a flat tire on a nose wheel The heater burned out and nd the oxygen supply was exhausted on the last leg leg of th the flight The Bombshell was a stripped down American A 26 twin- twin engine ne attack bomber It was plenty fast It t att attained ined ed at one onetime onetime onetime time with the help of tail winds a speed of miles an hour and cracked speed records on almost every leg of its flight The Bombshell flew around the world i in just a little more than three days days and and nd it should be remembered that it was a conventional conventional conventional con con- type of airplane not a modern jet or rocket design We haven't reached the limits of rapid transportation b b bt bany S PanY any means but but the Bombshells Bombshell's fe feat t proves that we we hav have come far fare far from rom the time even a few decades ag ago when the fastest means of transportation placed Europe almost a week from us and the theother theother theother other side of the world three weeks or even longer One cannot but bilt recall the thee h e famous fe feat t of Nellie Nellie Vellie B Ely Bly y great woman reporter of the New York World She set out to put Jules Verne and his fictional character Phineas Fogg to shame by beating his round world the world the record Nellie eme made the circuit it of the globe 57 7 years ago to the amazement of everyone in 72 days Those days day of long time distance are gone forever fo The world has shrunk In hi point of time to a fraction of its I former size The ocean means no no more than a range of mountains did dida a half a century ago An airplane can fly completely around the world in hi just a little over three days I It is possible to to reach almost any spot on the earths earth's surface from a strategically situated situated situated sit sit- air base in a nonstop flight flight and and do it in ina a a matter of hours not days or r feeks weeks Other nations and other peoples are re nC no longer remote strangers They tare are in actual Tact fact our next-door next neighbors An And we arc are their neigh neighbors rs Somehow all th the peoples of the world must recognize that now nowr We must all realize that the new advances in transportation and communication make us such close neighbors that it is imperative we become go good r d neighbors for our mutu mutual l benefit for benefit for fol Ot our rown own pea peace e and r happiness America is the heart and core of democracy If democracy is to live Americans have bave got to learn that they must be willing witling willingto to pay to pay 3 as big a price as the Russians would to pr preserve serve their id ideals Roy als Roy Howard Scripps-Howard Scripps newspapers chi chief f U tive I I think Co Communists should be excluded from any type of public activity including the right to run to-run ru run for office to sit in inch ch chambers of or to hold office in trade Unions Labor Labor Se Secretary We are never going to it be time big-time in athletics at Harvard We Ve want students who are incidentally taking part in athletics rather than athletes who arc incidentally going to college William J. J Bingham Harvard director of athletics r r |
