Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four jets started up with a low whine that rose to a scream, then a roar. The engine tests took three days. Then the chocks were pulled from the wheels, and the big plane rolled down the runway, circled and rolled back again, swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston was doubly careful; for five days...
...Alvin Bentley of Michigan...
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson...
Reappraisal. In Charlotte, N.C., after polling only 8,000 votes in a Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate, Alvin Wingfield Jr. told reporters: "I think it is clear that the vast majority of our people do not agree with my ideas at this time...
...Born. To Alvin Morell Bentley, 35, U.S. Representative from Michigan, worst-hit of five Congressmen wounded by Puerto Rican fanatics in the Capitol (TIME, March 8), now fully recovered; and his second wife, Arvella Ann Duescher Bentley, 30: their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: Clark Henry. Weight...