Word: catapulting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction-tube system to "zip" commuters from suburbia to their city offices. Ed Hunter of Dayton, Ohio, felt that giant slingshots hi the suburbs could catapult commuters into outsized baseball catcher's mitts downtown: "Use baby oil to keep the mitt soft," he advised...
...time, it was hard to see that Cornell would wind up the season with just three wins in nine games. They were 2-0-1, and Harvard was undefeated. The game seemed destined to catapult one team toward a championship and dash the hopes of the other...
...shapes up, it looks like another season of six .500 ball clubs battling for post-season playoff honors. But if everything goes as planned, it appears that the Mets will give it their usual slow start and then catapult into first place during the final weeks of the season. However, if Yogi's battalion falters, look for the Cards to slide into the New York power vacuum...
...Russians launched their first aircraft carrier. At 45,000 tons, it is about half as large as the big U.S. carriers like the nuclear-propelled Nimitz. It will be able to bring helicopters and vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft to the scene of a battle but lacks the catapult needed to launch fixed-wing fighters or bombers...
Died. Gabriel Voisin, 93, pioneer French aeronautical engineer; near Tournus, France. Voisin claimed that his biplane, which took off under its own power and flew a one-kilometer circuit in 1908, made the world's first valid aircraft flight. (The Wright Brothers in 1903 had used a catapult-assisted takeoff.) Voisin built 10,400 aircraft for the Allies during World...