Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
After the wheel doors closed up, Felix was comfortable, though cramped. "It was nice to get out of the wind," he recalled later. But when Captain...
Edward Mills Purcell, 40 year old professor of Physics here, and Dr. Felix Block of Stanford University received the award for their development, separately, of a new method of measuring magnetic fields in atomic nuclei...
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, former Byrne Professor of Law, will judge the Law School Ames Competition finals in March, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...