Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will take an unprecedented combination of power and principle to resolve the plight of America's cities. Last week in Washington, the beginnings of such a partnership were welded at a day long "convocation" of the newly formed Urban Coalition. The group included Henry Ford II, Walter Reuther, David Rockefeller, George Meany, A. Philip Randolph, I. W. Abel, Whitney Young, John Lindsay. The list, 1,200 strong, comprised mayors and millionaires, bishops and union bosses...
...vantage of last month's cloud cover to station more of their antiaircraft guns and SAM missiles just north of Hanoi. Air Force Ace Robin Olds noted that "there were also some MIGs to liven things up." Two of them were gunned down by Air Force Lieut. David Waldrop. The sky was so thick with planes that the North Vietnamese joined in the MIG-shoot too; they accidentally shot down one of their planes with a SAM missile...
...Verdi's finest songs is the poignant Pieta, Signor, composed at the end of his career and reflecting much of the same hushed awe of his Manzoni Requiem; not mentioned in the standard Verdi catalogue, the song was flushed out of an obscure Italian library by Verdi Scholar David Stivender. Other long-lost scores, such as the charming and perky Wind Quintet by Ponchielli (of La Gioconda fame) were found in editions long out of print...
Everything seemed normal when Test Pilot David W. Howe eased the LA4 "Lake" amphibian toward Niagara Falls International Airport earlier this month. So he radioed a highly abnormal report to the tower: "Bag down and inflated." Seconds later he landed-without wheels-on a cushion...
...also on ice, water, sand, swampland, and terrain dotted with obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible use of its ACLG...