Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 2 with the paper clip, riding as observer and officer in charge of the formation. Behind the T-38 hunched a droop-snoot Phantom, the delight of Navy and Air Force pilots in Viet...
...January the Federation of Harvard Territorial Clubs took up offices in the Union. The federation was made up of the Harvard Clubs of Minnesota, Pennsylvania. The Cotton Belt States, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Chicago. Lowell asked the assistance of the clubs in bringing "men from all over the country to Harvard and to take Harvard to them." Lowell outlined a new entrance examination designed to make Harvard more acessible to public school students from the south and west, and a Harvard Club scholarship program to make attendence at Harvard feasible for many more deserving students...
...reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...
Judging from the volume of phone calls and telegrams urging him on, the people did indeed desire Herman for Governor. On the other hand, a small, influential group representing banks, textile manufacturers and cotton interests strongly urged the former Governor (1948-55) to stay in Washington-or face a financial boycott of his campaign...
Sweating Hands. The first problem for Cotton was to find the one minute area for manipulation among thousands of miles of wire and innumerable relay points. For 75 minutes, while White piloted the plane, Cotton crawled back and forth between Cecil's innards and the cockpit, where he could get guidance from the ground. He was armed with the flashlight, screw driver and pliers that he always carries with him when flying. Finally he thought he had located the right relay switch. Taking a dime-store binder clip that he uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton...