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...retracted. In a turn with the wings banked at 17 degrees, the kind that jets often make when climbing away from Idlewild's runway 31-L, the stalling speed goes up to about 215 m.p.h. A 707 flying below that speed is apt to lower a wing and dive toward the ground. According to competent eyewitnesses, this is what American's 707 did. The stall, if it was a stall, might have been caused by retracting the flaps, which give the wing extra lift, before the plane had reached flying speed. To be on the safe side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...Dive: 1. Lewy (H); 2. Whitaker (Y); 3. Smart (Y). 75.45 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summaries | 3/5/1962 | See Source »

Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Seeking out ancient customs and rituals, the program visits the South Pacific island of Pentecost, where young men climb a 90-ft. tower and dive to the solid ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 16, 1962 | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...with other names underneath, and so on down to all the tricky below-decks devices, such as names in boxes (a favorite for musical directors and choreographers). Then there is the "as" line for disgruntled second fiddles and for stars who take a quick look at the competition, then dive strategically for last place. Thus, by contractual agreement, ads for Bronston's King of Kings must end with the words "and ROBERT RYAN as John the Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egos: Watch My Line | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

Four weeks later at Midway, U.S. dive-bombers inflicted the war's first clear defeat on the Japanese, sinking four Japanese carriers. Long years of war were still to come, but thereafter the U.S. was never again to fight against hopeless odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Night | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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