Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying a perfect profile. At 39,800 ft. he kicked in his afterburner and accelerated to Mach 2.36, which is close to the F-104C's maximum permissible speed at that altitude. Then he nosed up at an ideal 47°. At 40,000 ft. he dumped his cabin pressure, and his pressure suit inflated. His afterburner went out at 75,000 ft. He shut off his air-starved engine at 95,000 ft. The ship coasted up without power and porpoised over at 103,395 ft., beating the Russian record (94,658 ft.) by more than...
...live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...
Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called Topsy and Eva, popularized some of the classic songs of the '20s (Bye, Bye Blackbird; Side by Side); after an auto accident; in Chicago...
...Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...
...subsidy, a rare record in postwar Germany. Its catalogue of 23 films represents only 12% of the German movies now in circulation, but its annual gross ($35,850,000) comes to 30% of the income from German film production. Kuba herself boasts a villa on Lake Starnberg with two cabin cruisers and a speedboat, a villa on the Riviera, a chalet in Switzerland, a stable of expensive cars, a Skye terrier named Putzi and a black poodle named Wutzi. It is all confirmation of her own straightforward formula for success: "All I want to see in my movies is what...