Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, neither Morse nor Talmadge nor any of their crew had a wisp of a chance of defeating the bill, which came out of Theodore Francis Green's Foreign Relations Committee with heavy bipartisan backing. The committee refused to authorize only $227 million of the $3.8 billion appropriation sought by the Administration. Moreover, it even approved the President's request for an economic-development fund of indefinite duration, thus setting a new pattern for economic development funds (TIME, June 3). When the measure reached the Senate, both Minority Leader William Fife Knowland and Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet beneath...
...Mayflower had arrived as tempest-tossed as its namesake. Under the hand of oldtime Australian Skipper Alan Villiers, the 32-man crew had bounced along, wave-lashed in a peanut shell for 53 days (v. 66 days for the original...
Once moored, Mayflower II stayed at Provincetown for only a brief ceremony, next morning set sail westward to Plymouth, where the townspeople, long accustomed to tourism, turned out (in Pilgrim costume) to give the ship and crew the publicity-tuned kind of welcome that made the proud Provincetown folk bitter. From Oklahoma came 40 genuine Indians led by former New York Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds (also in the group: part-time Indian Will Rogers Jr.); the local Mayflower Transit Co. pulled its vans into camera range; an airplane zoomed overhead trailing a banner exhorting the Pilgrims to dine...
While Kittinger was being denitrogenized, the balloon was lying flat and limp on South St. Paul's Fleming Field. An Air Force crew turned helium into it, and bit by bit a bubble of plastic reared upward. At last the balloon, as tall as a 25-story building, was standing upright in the still early-morning air. At 6:27 a.m., it took off. Kittinger, his heartbeat still steady, radioed "Goodbye, cruel world...