Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test pilot, Joseph A. Walker of NASA, who in 25 flights in the X-15 rocket plane had flown higher (354,200 ft.) and faster (4,104 m.p.h.) than man had ever gone in a winged ship. Walker, who was preparing to join the B70 program, had been flying "chase" behind the Valkyrie to observe it in operation. Next, an Air Force F-5 fighter-bomber tucked into position behind Walker. To the B-70's portside came a T-38 supersonic trainer with Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, the chief B70 Air Force test pilot who had saved Valkyrie...
Richard A. DeAngelis, of Chevy Chase, Md. (Social Studies); William B. Ginsberg, of Shaker Heights, Ohio (Mathematics); Paul I. Meyer, of University City, Mo. (Government); Walter N. Nichipor, of Fall River (Classics); Stephen J. Suffern, of New York City (Government); Edwin A. Toth, of Cheshire, Conn. (Anthropology); Jose E. Trias, of San Juan, Puerto Rico (Economics); Howard B. Waitzkin, of Akron, Ohio (Social Relations) and Raphael W Zahler, of Little Neck, N.Y. (Mathematics...
...Chase Hobos. Menk is a railroader's son who began 30 years ago as a telegrapher, rose to head the Frisco line and become the most sought-after executive in the industry. He was recruited for the Burlington with a bigger job in mind: the railroad's stock is 97% owned by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern and, in a merger that the ICC unexpectedly turned down last month, he was slated to become operating head of the three roads. With the merger outlook now cloudy, he is concentrating on bettering the Burlington. Among the measures...
Died. James R. Newman, 58, lawyer-turned-author, who made math digestible to the unscientific mind with 15 well-received books including his 1956 World of Mathematics, a four-volume survey that sold 160,000 copies; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase...
...truckload of store dummies clad in underwear, to right wrongs in a swampy Southern backwater identified as "the goose capital of America." There, with shotguns blazing and red-eyed alligators slithering toward Claudia's thighs, the whole flight of fancy turns out to be a wild-goose chase...