Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes little pathfinding skill to find the Lawson Academy of Fine Arts. As the advertisements say, its studios are "above Harvard Pro," a scant flight of stairs away from the bottles and crates of Cambridge's thriving liquor outlet. This fact doesn't seem to bother either the artists or Lawson Mooney, their instructor, however, and the trim little rooms on the second floor are spiritually removed from the bustle of Mount Auburn Street...
Jupiter has traveled even farther. Researchman William A. Holaday, missiles assistant to Defense Secretary Wilson, remarked in a speech last week that the U.S. had fired a ballistic missile "thousands of miles," and he was apparently talking about Jupiter, which reportedly traveled 3,600 miles on its longest flight from Cape Canaveral...
Next day, with Cyrus Eaton Jr. acting as host and guide, Krupp and his party boarded an airplane for the first leg of a 1,000-mile flight to Ungava Bay. But when the plane landed at Schefferville. Krupp learned that his mother, Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, had died in Essen. He hurried to New York to catch an airliner home to Germany, while Eaton and the rest of the Krupp party continued the flight to Ungava...
...expected delivery dates (late 1958 v. mid-1959). But Douglas will try a new angle to catch up. Instead of test-flying one plane, as Boeing has, Douglas will send up first eight or nine DC-8s for 60 hours or more each, thus hopes to accumulate enough flight time to get CAB certification quickly...
...cries for help alerted Campbell, who tried to intercept the flight of the criminals. An alarm was subsequently turned in to Cambridge and University police...