Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most interest centered on San Diego's Florence Chadwick, 35, an old pro at distance swimming. The big Canadian National Exhibition had advanced her $2,-500 for expenses and contracted to pay her $7,500 more if she reached its Toronto exposition grounds. At the last minute, two Canadians decided to join her. One was Mrs. Winnie Roach Leuszler, 28, the only Canadian woman to conquer the English Channel. The other: blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 16, a 119-lb. Toronto high-school girl whose only claim to swimming fame was that she had been the first woman...
Flying Dutchman. In San Diego, after the Superior Meat Co. requested payment for the $966 worth of meat it had delivered to the chief petty officer of the U.S.S. Capsanta, police and Navy investigators could find no meat, no chief petty officer, no ship named Capsanta...
...band of anxious engineers clambered onto a floating dock in San-Diego Bay recently to watch the newest U.S. Navy flying boat, out for its first water trial; as a photographer snapped away, the plane's bow gaped open like the mouth of a giant whale, revealing an enormous cavern for cargo. The So-ton craft, pictures of which were released last week, was the R3Y-2 "Flying LST," built for beach-assault operations by General Dynamics' Convair division. To pull away from a beach or dock the pilot,simply reverses propellers; the ship needs...
Last year Convair's propulsion-engineering laboratory was assigned to test the raindrop effect. On a U.S. Navy firing range outside San Diego, Convair's engineers developed a simple but effective experiment. To approximate supersonic flight, test pellets of aircraft materials (e.g., light metals, plastics, fabrics) were fired from a standard 20-mm. cannon through a "rainstorm" produced by a 500-ft. series of sprinklers. The pellets' speed was kept constant-1,520 m.p.h.-and a parachute, timed to open after 1,500 ft., brought the projectile to earth...
Artist Cuevas professes to be untutored and uninfluenced-except for his admiration of Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He dismisses the other Mexican masters, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, with a shrug: "They died several years ago, and what is left are the politics and the public relations...