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...Gary into a still bigger gym. By this time, there was fretful muttering that first place might have to go to Mike Berkowitz, 17, whose toss of only 53 ft. 10¼ in. had hit nothing but the floor. But the weary Bronx boy-whale finally got off a freeflight toss that went 60 ft. 7½ in. to win his just reward. This spring he will have all outdoors for room in his assault on the national scholastic record of 69 ft. 3 in., held by Southern California's Dallas Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bronx Bomber | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...manager, he watched his desk disappear under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil of the P-51 fighter of World War II, a supersonic freeflight wind tunnel in which a model plane is fired into a blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Research Man | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Safer Than Driving. Right from the start of last week's meet, Paul MacCready rode the upcurrents as surely as Willie Hoppe playing the caroms on a billiard table. He finished second in the freeflight for distance, covering 241.7 miles, moved out in front in overall standings with a fifth in the 62-mile race south to St. Etienne, and in the next event, an Alpine flight, he practically flew off with the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying Sorcerer | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Honest John is a freeflight artillery rocket that can carry atomic warheads some 15 miles. Another is the "Corporal."which can be guided by remote control to targets 100 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PISTOL AND THE CLAW: New military policy for age of atom deadlock | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but packs a much bigger punch. Even carrying ordinary explosives, one "Honest John" furnishes fire power equal to hundreds of artillery shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Weapons | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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