Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes or pressure suits; in emergency, crewmen will be ejected into the subfreezing near-vacuum sealed in capsules that parachute down to gentle landings...
...over Western Europe, tanned, crew-cut boys and golden girls in ponytails reluctantly faced up last week to the end of the prodigal summer, began settling back into the familiar patterns of work, family and school. Listening to their nostalgic tales of Stockholm love affairs, or bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with...
...Alamo, should be a smash; the $8,000,000 budget includes a full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once again history is relived in this production...
Cabot was captain of the JV 150-pound crew in 1958 and was a spare of the winning 150-pound team at Henley this year and last...
...rest of the team's fall schedule is as follows: Oct. 10, Greater Boston Freshman Championship and NEISA racing championship; Oct. 17, NEISA sloop championship; Oct. 18, Greater Boston Dinghy Championship and Freshman Octagonal; Oct. 25, Pentagonal Rally at Brown; Oct. 31, Freshman individual crew championship; Nov. 8, NEISA invitational; Nov. 14-15, NEISA Team racing Championships; Nov. 21-22, Middle Atlantic Fall Regatta; Nov. 27-29, Midwest Thanksgiving regatta; Dec. 12-13, Potomac Frostbite regatta...