Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Tigers racked up 284 kills and 300 probables, in exchange for twelve pilots, two crew chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store...
...weight of a standard camera and transmitter would require a helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking a 3-ft.-long modified helical antenna on the whirlybird, setting...
...racing schedules most of the week as the first series of America's Cup trials for twelve-meter yachts ended off Newport, R.I. What racing there was clearly established the early-form supremacy of Columbia, skippered by Briggs Cunningham. John Matthews' ancient Vim performed well with good crew work, handily beating Weatherly and Chandler Hovey's Easterner, both of which were plagued by rigging breakdowns and boners attributable to inexperienced crews...
...light blue Weatherly, whose skipper, Arthur Knapp Jr., has sailed everything from dinghies to ocean cruisers, was designed by Philip Rhodes for a syndicate headed by New Jersey Shipping Executive Henry D. Mercer. With an experienced but highly individualistic crew, she becomes the unknown factor in the America's Cup trials...
When Japanese laborers were digging up a hillside to widen a highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...