Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of the uproar was the threatened cancellation of Britain's all-purpose TSR-2 bomber. A superbly sophisticated airplane that can fly at twice the speed of sound twelve miles high, or barrel along on the deck to elude enemy radar, the TSR-2 was first intended to be a light bomber. Later the plane was modified for direct support of ground troops, replacing the canceled Blue Water artillery missile. Then two years ago, when the U.S. decided to scrub its Skybolt air-to-ground thermonuclear missile, which had been destined for sale to the R.A.F...
Founder and moving spirit of the E.A.A. is Paul H. Poberezny, 43, of Hales Corners, Wis., whose constituents mostly call him "Poop Deck" because who can manage "Poberezny"? Poberezny, who is deputy commander of matériel, 128th Air Refueling Group, Wisconsin Air National Guard, learned to fly at 14 in a glider, flew both fighters and bombers in World War II and Korea. He has built five planes himself. In 1953 he founded the E.A.A. with a group of like-minded friends. "Aviation is one of the last frontiers of individual thinking," he says, "where a man with...
Navy needed a new, supersonic jet fighter that could get off an aircraft carrier's deck in a hurry and could land on that same deck without splashing itself into the sea. At the same time, the U.S. Air Force needed a new, all purpose jet fighter to meet the requirements of its own particular missions and assignments...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...number two sabre man, Paul Profeta. A former swimming candidate, Profeta has switched to fencing this year and has enjoyed a remarkably successful season, winning eight of his nine matches so far. Third man in the sabre will be Al Makattis, with sophomore Bob Damus on deck if he is needed...