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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valuable plane that it should never have been placed in such a potentially dangerous situation. Brown singled out for blame the officers who authorized the picture-taking mission. He relieved Colonel Albert M. Gate from his job as deputy for systems testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base and reprimanded two other colonels; all of them had unaccountably ignored orders to clear all such flights with their top superiors...
Israel bagged another Arab MIG during the week-this one without firing a shot. After sending a note to the Israeli air force earlier this month, Iraqi air force Captain Mounir Rowfa, 30, flew his MIG-21 from Al Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad to an undisclosed Israeli airbase, and gave the West its first closeup look at the Soviets' 1,200-m.p.h. fighter. Rowfa claimed that he had been planning his defection for months because of religious discrimination (he is a Catholic) and Iraq's war against the Kurds...
...Mount Rainier loomed above like a grim shadow. But not even a badly bruised ankle could keep Defense Secretary Robert McNamara down. So he pulled on his sturdy wool knickers, taped his ankle, kissed his wife Margaret goodbye, and set out from the 10,000-ft.-high base camp an hour after midnight. There were eleven in the party, including 16-year-old Son Craig and 22-year-old Daughter Kathleen. By dawn they were on the peak, admiring the panorama of Washington's Cascade Range stretched out below. "For a man who spends his life behind a desk...
...field he hardly ever steals a base any more. He has made four errors in centerfield so far this season-which for Willie is almost a disgrace. He no longer plays both ends of a doubleheader, and talks about being "too tired" to swing for the home run. But when he's in the groove, he seems as strong as ever, and his batting record speaks for itself: 31 home runs so far this season, including two more last week after the record breaker...
...only veteran on the team was Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 24, who ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and plays like it when he can keep a lid on his temper. Last week the only menacing thing about Dennis was his game. Mixing riflelike base-line shots with lobs, he ran Mexico's Star Rafael Osuna, 27, into the ground with a four-set victory...