Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional prop planes. In demonstrating how it could do the job, Lockheed's Cheyenne rolled down the runway at 50 m.p.h., stopped, reversed direction, then did a series of intricate ground maneuvers before lifting itself 10 ft. aloft and hovering in that position. Extending and retracting its landing gear, the craft climbed to 30 ft. and, in helicopter fashion, backed up in the air. Test Pilot Don Segner then gave the plane's single turbine engine the throttle, and the 55-ft.-long craft raced above the applauding gallery at speeds approaching its maximum of 250 m.p.h...
...powerhouse was back in operation at Watson Rink Saturday night, grinding up Brown's hockey team and spewing forth a satisfying 7-3 victory. With the win, the Harvard skaters move to the top of the Ivy League and are in high gear to battle Cornell here tonight for the number one ranking in the east...
...imagine how the discouragement could go any deeper than it already has. Congress and the President are not yet as badly stalemated as they were during John F. Kennedy's last days, but they are rapidly approaching that point. The Great Society is sputtering along in low gear because, as one Administration official put it, "the governmental structure has outrun the funds." Rumors of wholesale resignations are making the rounds in Washington in the wake of Robert Mc-Namara's decision to quit the Defense Department. United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg is expected to depart within...
Harvard started slowly, scoring first at 9:46 on a tap-in shot by forward Peter Haley, set up by center Tom Mechem and forward Jim Oates. Finally in gear, the Crimson tallied three times in the next ten minutes on scores by Haley, forward Joe Tibbetts, and center George McManama...
...keep the good life rolling in high gear, an annual income of $600,000 from trust funds totaling $30 million should be just the ticket. That sum is what Palm Beach-Long Island Socialite Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 61, can count on, and it has gone a long way toward making him appear to be the man who has everything. Family? Hard to top a steel-rich Phipps mother and a British father who was a polo-playing first cousin to Winston Churchill. Wife? None other than the patrician blonde "Ceezee," the former Lucy Cochrane of Boston (TIME cover, July...