Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McGuire does not mind talking about his closest call while flying to Biafra and one might even suspect that he takes a certain delight in it. Scheduled as a crew member on one flight, he transferred to an earlier one partly because of a quarrel with the other flight engineer, but mostly because of "a certain feeling; you get to be like a cat or some kind of an animal sometimes." The flight to which McGuire transferred was supposed to be a dangerous one. Its pilot, since given other duties, carried the sobriquet of "Mr. Magoo." It landed safely...
...bomb load. Last week the world's only active battleship, the 59,300-ton U.S.S. New Jersey, with Captain Joseph Edward Snyder Jr. in command, joined a Seventh Fleet Task Force off the South Vietnamese coast. In its first action -which incidentally earned her crew combat pay for all of September - the New Jersey silenced four anti-aircraft positions just above the DMZ and twelve miles inland. It also pounded a bunkered storage depot that had proved impervious to air and artillery strikes...
...tower that is jettisoned shortly after launch). Any one of those items conceivably could cause trouble. But NASA nonetheless is optimistically planning for success. Says Metallurgist Thomas Paine, who this week replaced retiring NASA Administrator James Webb: "We have put great stress on the ability of the Apollo 9 crew to operate the LM. All subsequent crews will have extensive training in all of the activities required for lunar landing...
...taken to insure it--including machine-gunning of peaceful demonstrators. The Mexican government is "protecting" the athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games form harm by mowing down potential troublemakers with bullets. This kind of protection should not be accepted or tolerated by athletes there--including the Harvard crew. All athletes at the Games ought to reject the barbarism of the Mexican authorities and refuse to participate in the Games...
Senior Jerry Williams captains Tupeny's crew. Last year Williams hung on doggedly behind Harvard's Jim Baker for three miles before fading back to fourth place. He has already broken the Penn home course record this year and could be ready to mount a challenge for the full five mile curcuit. Junior George Lokken, a third place finisher behind Baker and Doug Hardin in last year's meet, has also eclipsed the Penn record and teams up with Williams to form a potent scoring pair...