Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young King flew his twin-engined de Havilland Dove, with the royal Hashemite standard painted on its stabilizer, humming high above the Syrian desert at a modest 160 m.p.h. Suddenly the Damascus radio crackled a warning that the plane had no overflight clearance, demanded the identity of its crew and passengers. The King refused and turned the controls over to Dalgleish, defying an airport order to land at Damascus...
Down deep, Monaco's blonde, serene Princess Grace is still just one of the girls. On a trip to Europe, reported strapping Olympic Sculler Champion Jack Kelly, he and some 22 of his crewmates dropped in on Sis and husband Prince Rainier, who put the crew up for the night, cheerfully hosted a hamburger broil, guzzled beer from the bottle with the boys. "She's still the same girl, a little more domesticated, but she fits in all right," reported Jack. "Her only trouble is that she doesn't speak French so well, but her husband speaks...
...neat suit, with matching vest. It is even possible that Yale's pride may come to rival that tennis-playing smoothie among women's college presidents, Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence. Mendenhall's favorite sport is rowing-he rowed at Oxford, watches Yale crew practice in all weather-but he has perfected a crushing game of croquet at Berkeley. Students there are agitated about his departure. Picket sign carried last week by one Yalie: "Take us with you, leader...
Veteran Test Pilot Robert M. Stanley of the Stanley Aviation Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must...
...punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...