Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still chasing records after 30 years of flying, blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 56, zippered into a blue flying suit and zipped out of New Orleans at the controls of a four-jet Lockheed Jetstar named Scarlett O'Hara. In Hanover, West Germany, 5,120 miles later (average speed: 489 m.p.h.), Cosmetics Queen Cochran, a onetime beauty-parlor odd-jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ron Cochran narrates a documentary on modern developments in cancer therapy...
Jerome S. Bruner, Psychology; William G. Cochran, Statistics; Bruce Chalmers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Edward J. Geary, French; Donald R. Griffin, Biology; Seymour E. Harris, Eco. nomics; Frank H. Westheimer, Chemistry...
After a six-year eclipse, Flygirl Jacqueline Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
...from the propeller-driven days of Jimmy Doolittle, Jackie Cochran, reciprocating engines, wheel pants and struts. Civilians no longer could afford to compete, and according to present procedure, only one service was invited. But early one day last week, five Navy F4H-1 Phantom II jets roared down the runway at Los Angeles International Airport and raced eastward. Their goals: Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a new transcontinental speed record, and the Bendix Trophy-one of the most coveted awards in U.S. aviation...