Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed of the earth's rotation (1,080 m.p.h.), U.S. Marine Corps Major John H. Glenn Jr., 36, fell short of his hope, nevertheless last week jockeyed a pencil-nosed, silver-painted Navy F8U1 Crusader jet from Long Beach, Calif, to New York City for a new coast-to-coast record of 3 hr. 23 min. First to span the nation at supersonic speed, Pilot Glenn averaged 726 m.p.h. (or Mach 1.1 at his average flying altitude of 35,000 ft.), cut 21 minutes off the previous record established in March 1955 by Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robert...
...ready for big-time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging...
...West Coast audiences and critics who have been listening to 22-year-old Pat Suzuki for the last two years like to argue whether she has the style of Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern, Judy Garland or Ethel Merman. The truth is that she sounds occasional echoes of all of them. But she also has a dead-sure sense of phrasing all her own and a warm-tinted, open voice which casts its own mellow glow over the familiar lyrics she handles...
...water-diviner was given temporary prominence when he claimed to be able to detect ammunition dumps on the French coast. Since Hitler was queer for occult arts, Military Intelligence was told to furnish a Hungarian astrologer with the birth dates of high-ranking German officers. This piece of nonsense led to the useful discovery that the War Office's list of enemy officers was pretty much made up of dead or retired Germans...
Jews on Madagascar. The British too began their period of desperate farce. Survivors of an early Commando raid on the French coast on June 25 could not regain foothold on British soil for some hours because the heroes could not establish their identity with the authorities at Folkestone harbor...