Word: glider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight to prove that aircraft could make junk out of Navy warships, in 1942 organized the India-based bomber force that struck the first offensive blows in the Far East (against Japanese forces in the Burma area), later commanded the First Allied Airborne Army in its 1944 glider-and-parachute invasion of The Netherlands; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...mile hop to Nantes-27-year-old Jacqueline was on her way to becoming a flying folk heroine. French newspapers endlessly told how the pretty pioneer,* charmed by the tales of Aviator-Author Antoine de St. Exupery, worked in a factory as a teen-ager to pay for glider lessons, later finished at the top of the class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter...
...multitudinous activities is the Rev. Gordon Cosby, 49. Born in Virginia, the son of a Baptist deacon, Cosby was ordained a minister of his father's church after graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. During World War II, as a chaplain to an infantry glider regiment that landed in Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division, Cosby began to think about the possibility of a new kind of ecumenical congregation based upon personal commitment rather than creed. While in Europe, he formed the experimental Airborne Christian Church, which was composed of soldiers from several faiths who organized...
Down-Under Glider. The also-flowns were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
Particles and Field Department. A paper caricature of Snoopy, the mutt in Peanuts, had ears for wings, rear paws for tail assembly; since it was unflyable, it was suspended from a Kleenex parachute. Australia was represented by a long, beak-nosed glider. "It will probably fly upside down in the Northern Hemisphere," predicted the Qantas executive who sent it to the contest. The only direction it flew on three successive flights was straight down under...