Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect space team. Inside Man McDivitt is a superb pilot and a first-class engineer who is the son of an electrical engineer. Outside Man White is a daring flyer, a fine athlete, a military career-man who is the son of a retired Air Force major general who flew everything from balloons to jets...
...craft flew over Australia, Mc Divitt radioed the tracking station there: "We don't have arty time...
...political and economic disarray, Brazil remains a huge, vigorously growing nation that is learning to take advantage of its universal resources. One day recently, President Castello Branco flew 350 miles south from Brasilia to preside over two impressive ceremonies. At a construction site on the Rio Grande River in Minas Gerais, a mighty dynamite blast signaled the start of work on the Estreito Dam, which will generate 800,000 kw. of power when it is finished in 1969. A few hours later and 44 miles away, Castello Branco witnessed the completion of Latin America's biggest hydroelectric complex...
...Scotland's Jim Clark, 29, lets on, the Indy 500 is a bit of a bore. Fortnight before the race, while everybody else was practicing furiously, he flew home to inspect the livestock on his 1,200-acre Lowlands farm. When he returned, he allowed as how, "frankly speaking, I'd rather be in Monte Carlo"-where his European comrades were competing the same weekend in the Grand Prix of Monaco.* Still, his boss, Colin Chapman, had signed up for the race, and Clark reckoned he might as well make the most of t. So he did. Squirming...
...from Washington flew a new ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge. "For application of the new policy," says Mecklin, "the President had found exactly the right man. Ambassador Lodge proved to be an able executioner...