Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tarifa, Spain, Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick plunged into the Straits of Gibraltar, swam the eight miles to Africa in the record time of 5 hrs. 6 min. Her next target: the Bosporus...
Duke did not carry a full military load, as Barns did in his Sabre, but on the other hand he had the disadvantage of Hying in colder air. The temperature over the Channel was only 72° F., while Barns flew over the hot desert near Salton Sea, Calif, in air at 104° F. Since the speed of sound is lower in cooler air, Duke approached more closely the resistance point that waits just below Mach...
...English Channel, San Diego's Florence Chadwick, 33, swimming west to east in 14 hrs. 42 min., conquered the channel for the third time. After a four-minute rest, she waded back into the water to attempt an immediate east-to-west crossing, was stopped after 2¼ miles by cold and a school of stinging jellyfish...
...chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England, the Channel, the coast of France. Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still half-filled canteen. It's nearly 10 p.m.; the lights of Paris come into view, and five miles away, the floodlights of Le Bourget Field. Lindbergh toys with...
...California's Monterey peninsula last week, two separate TV stations, about 14 miles apart in Monterey and Salinas, began beaming test patterns on the same channel (No. 8). It promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last...