Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first flyer to break the sound barrier in level flight, back in 1947 in the old Bell X-1, Air Force Colonel Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 39, assumed command of a new U.S.A.F. school to teach latter-day rocket jockeys "everything they need to know about being astronauts." As first boss of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Yeager expects to help outdate himself: "By next year we'll be running 32 students through in a single class...
Hindustan was wonderful both ways, but we really cracked the musical sound barrier when we pedaled out the reverse of The Irish Were Egyptians Long...
...September 1959 a seven-man French explorer-adventurer task force headed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, together with 60 native bearers, began a south-to-north, coast-to-coast trek across Netherlands New Guinea from the Arafura Sea over the central barrier through a 150-mile pocket of jungle which no white man had ever charted. Seven months and 1,000 winding miles later, having logged temperatures from near freezing to as high as 132° Fahrenheit and altitudes of up to 12,000 ft., Gaisseau and his radio engineer, Herve de Maigret. staggered out to the mocking serenity...
...years, the biggest barrier to serious discussions of Lutheran unity has been the independent stand of the doctrinally conservative, fast growing (2,500,000 members) Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Historically wary of cooperating with church groups that do not share its theological views, the Missouri Synod has never joined the National Lutheran Council-the service organization that coordinates such matters as public relations, welfare and mission activities for most of the nation's other Lutheran groups...
...June 15 Germany: Fathers and Sons (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). An examination of the "barrier of silence" between Germans who lived under Hitler and the younger generation who have grown up since the fall of the Third Reich...