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...seat sat his instructor, Captain Thomas Coryell, 29, charged with keeping an alert for other aircraft while his student practiced. At 8:28. Pilot Moran called the control tower at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas to report that he would now begin a "jet penetration," a procedural dive to 14.000 ft.; he headed down at about 280 knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: High Crime? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...TIME agrees with Readers Naymola and their satisfied patrons that a man's own friendly neighborhood bar is never a dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...issue you referred to our cocktail lounge as a "dive just outside Los Angeles." We are the owners of the Beacon Cafe and we're pretty damn mad! We have one of the nicest, cleanest family bars in Inglewood, and our patrons are mad about this statement also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...German dive bombers roared off into the sky, and the stocky young woman-one of countless uprooted victims of the Nazi armies advancing into France-scrambled out of the ditch. Said calm Mathilde Carré to a companion: "There's almost a sensual pleasure in real danger, don't you think? Your whole body seems suddenly to come alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Ferret | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...people, including sportswriters, call him Willie, a name he detests; he prefers Bill, and the girls all call him Bill. His followers have a complaint as well. Too many people stake their cash on his talent, so the odds on a Hartack-ridden horse almost always take a dive before the field gets into the starting gate. This even Hartack deplores. "Every time I ride a horse that's a legitimate 4-toi shot," says he without unseemly modesty, "he comes up 8 to 5. Even I can't move a horse up that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bully & the Beasts | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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