Word: gears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masterful Feat." In the cockpit, Kimes was nursing the crippled plane closer to Travis. As he approached the airbase, he discovered that the hydraulic system had failed and that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
...succession and 15 times in all-even tually raising it to a fantastic 90.59 m.p.h. He did it on a course that he had never even seen until two days before the race, a course that ranks as one of the toughest in the world: 51 curves and 102 gear changes per five-mile lap, an average of one gear change every 2 sec. And he did it in a four-year-old "training car" instead of the new, 32-valve model he wrecked in practice when the suspension snapped at 80 m.p.h. ("a bit breathtaking, that"). When he finally...
...lands them on the fairway. To prepare for shooting one such arrival (no one was sure just where the craft would put down), Roberts took a few practice turns on an electric golf cart, then waited for Robbins. As the plane dipped down, Roberts set off with cart steering gear in one hand, Nikon in the other. His shot of Robbins landing was taken at top cart speed...
...replies, Buckley wasn't kidding. He will run as the recently formed (1962) Conservative Party's candidate, and he has no chance at all of beating either Republican John V. Lindsay or whomever the Democrats pick in their September primary. He does not intend to gear his campaign "to placate voting blocs." In fact, he does not intend to campaign at all as the word is usually understood in ethnically oriented New York. "I do not propose to walk the streets," he said. "I will not go to Irish centers and go dancing. I will...
Died. Carl Lukas Norden, 85, inventor of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia...