St Xavier High School - X Ray Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Three huge B-52 Stratofortresses are lined up at March Air Force Base after completing their history-making, nonstop fiight around the world. Record F light A few months ago, the United States took a big step towards encouraging world peace when it posed a formidable threat against alien nations. On Friday, January 18, it announced that three B-52 Strato- fortresses had landed at March Air Force Base in California after completing the first nonstop jet flight around the world. In the words of the commander of the Strategic Air Command, the flight was a ttdemonstration of the SAC global cap- abilities to strike any target on the face of the earth? The record hight 0f the threeth planes, which conducted a simulated nuclear bomb drop at roughly the half-way point, took approximately 45 hours and 10 min- utes, breaking the previous record of 94 hours set by an Air Force propellor- driven plane eight years ago. Three mid- air refuelings by Air Force aerial tankers were necessary to enable the planes to complete their 24,000 mile globe-circling hight.

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Bobby Morrow leads teammates Andy Stanfield and Thane Baker to the wire to win the 200 meter dash and his second gold medal in the Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia. Olympic Games The 1956 United States Olympic team put on a hymen- dous exhibition of athletic prowess despite the fact that the Russian team gave the Americans their first beating since 1936 in the overall mathematics of the Olympic Games. Led by triple-winner Bobby Morrow, the American track team smashed almost every Olympic record in the track and field events. With Morrow run- ning wild in the 100 and 200 meter dashes; Charlie Dumas leaping like a kangaroo in the high jump; Parry OtBrien putting the shot over 60 feet; and ETyld- reliablett Bob Richards coming through in the pole- vault; the U. S. track team gave a performance that has never been equalled in the history of the Olympic Games.

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The Italian liner Andrea Doria lists badly to starboard after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm. Andrea Doria At eleven otclock on July 25, 1956, the magnificent Italian liner, Andrea Doria, was cutting her way through calm waters 0n the last leg of her trip from Genoa to New York. A movie Was being shown in one of the shipts four theaters; in the plush lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight piece orchestra. For the crew it was a routine run-the lOlst Atlantic cross- ing Yet, less than eleven hours later, the Andrea Doria lay at the bottom of the sea under 225 feet of water! At a few minutes past eleven otclock that night, the ttunsinkable Andrea Doria had been dealt a death blow by the reinforced prow of the Stockholm. A major disaster was averted when all but a few of the shipts passengers were rescued from a calamity which will be remembered for many years to come.