Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catherine Sang Menlo Park, Calif...
Mary Nietnan Pleasant Hill, Calif...
...could fly troops and cargo to the battle zones far above the reach of U-boats. Since metal was in short supply, he constructed his plane from lumber; hence its nickname, the Spruce Goose. Working in a mammoth hangar, which still stands at a Hughes plant in Culver City, Calif., Hughes built the huge eight-engine flying boat, which was as big as today's Boeing...
...entertaining military officers, including Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the late President's son. Facing down his congressional critics, Hughes vowed to leave the U.S. if the huge plane failed to fly. On Nov. 2,1947, he flew it-but only for slightly more than a mile off Long Beach, Calif., at an altitude of no higher than 70 ft. The plane was just too unwieldy and dangerous. Today it sits in a specially constructed hangar in Long Beach...
Hendricks, currently captain of the Radcliffe water polo team, swims backstroke and is from Livermore, Calif. A native of Fitchburg, Mass., McNamara's forte is the butterfly and longer freestyle events...