Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President, Humphrey has managed to share at least part of L.B.J.'s spotlight-a feat not unlike a clarinet player getting rave notices while playing in Benny Goodman's band. How does Humphrey do it? He is willing to perform any task, no matter how large or how small, that Johnson requests of him, and he is unabashedly devoted to his boss. "I became Vice President be cause he made me Vice President," Humphrey recently told a reporter. "As a matter of fact, I've always had a helping hand from Lyndon Johnson." Hubert feels that...
...Masterful Feat." In the cockpit, Kimes was nursing the crippled plane closer to Travis. As he approached the airbase, he discovered that the hydraulic system had failed and that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
Next day, with what could only be described as understatement, the Federal Aviation Agency presented Kimes and his crew with the FAA's Exceptional Service medal for a "masterful feat of airmanship...
...Maudling, now the Opposition's foreign policy expert, and Edward Heath, its "shadow" economics minister-has yet shown any relish for challenging the leader. The Tories, still recovering from the shock of finding themselves on the outs after 13 years in office, have at least closed ranks-a feat that perennially eludes Wilson's Laborites. And last week, the odds in favor of a Tory victory in the next election stood...
...blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test flight propels him into their line of fire. Later, when Frobe attempts the channel, flying quite literally by the book, he somehow finds himself suspended at low altitude, treading water. This feat is matched by Terry-Thomas maladroit landing atop an express train bound for Paris-with a tunnel dead ahead...