Word: ft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...runway at Pleiku in South Viet Nam's Central Highlands last week, the Air Force C-130 Hercules transport acted almost like a frisky jet fighter. With Air Force Major General Burl McLaughlin pushing it along at full power, the craft climbed rapidly to 12,500 ft. before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that he was carrying. Back...
Afterwards, as the grey, 280-ft. yacht knifed back across the inky waters toward Manila, Marcos' comely wife Imelda, a former Miss Manila, led the guests in a conga line. At length, Mrs. Marcos approached the TIME group and announced, "Now, the entertainment." Once they realized what she had in mind, the American guests rose and serenaded their Filipino hosts with a spirited, if slightly off-key Auld Lang Syne...
...cash on their person. In desperation, John stepped down and turned to a young woman on the curb to ask for change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device, a $24.95 gun that enfolds its target in a 12-ft. by 6-ft. cloud of tear gas and dye. Blinded, reeling, John staggered off down the street and hailed a taxi...
Spring Vegetation? Sophisticated as they are, Mariners 6 and 7 will at best be able to determine only the possibility of life on Mars. Their cameras, which can pick out features twelve times smaller than Mariner 4 could see, will nonetheless be unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases...
Foremost among the new instrument makers is Robert Moog, 34, an amateur musician with a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell. The electronic synthesizer that bears his name -a 4-ft.-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it-is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an "orchestra" for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows and the clarion call that heralds Westinghouse...