Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned into 55 hours of bone-wearying imprisonment that had diplomats in Washington and Moscow on tenterhooks...
Another reason for staying is to help Continental overcome a profit squeeze. This year's first-quarter revenues were up 10%, reaching $47 million. At the same time, Continental's cost for such-things as crew training, landing fees and fuel have increased, and the company this year alone will take delivery of 20 new planes costing $89 million. In about four years, however, Six intends to start slowing down. Says he: "When I get to be 65, I want to stay active in the company, but I don't want to be on the firing line...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...
...Olympic Trials at Long Beach beginning July 12, Harvard once again faces Vesper, and also must deal with another power, Penn. The fourth crew thus far entered, Univ. of Washington, is the best in the west. Harvard was the favorite before Saturday, and is even a better...
...members of that Olympic team are still in the boat. But for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Harvard began to build last year. After a somewhat poor fourth in the North American championships, the heavies recovered to finish second in the European championships to West Germany's Ratzeberg crew. Now, in their training room along the Charles River, the Harvard crew members have Mexican travel posters on the wall, and a printed sign on the shower-room door: "On to the Olympics...