Word: glider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association, Agnew excused himself by remarking: "The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking." Earlier, at a Gridiron Club dinner, he described the joys of the vice-presidency. "I have my own plane?Air Force 13. It's a glider...
With the Tour. Agnew talked about the prestige of having his own plane ("It's Air Force 13, and it's a glider"), of having access to the White House at any time ("I come in the front door -with the regular tour.") and his thor ough policy briefings ("Right now I'm studying...
...past eras who loudly proclaimed the earth to be flat, or that man will never fly, or that space exploration will forever be flights of imagination and no more. Perhaps there is an ingredient missing in today's computer that prevents it from achieving intelligence. Remember: a glider is just a glider until one adds an engine. When Mr. Adler goes on to enumerate the qualities a computer must have in order to qualify as an intelligent mechanism, among them being the capability of committing "human error," he is betraying his own species' narcissism. When it is finally...
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
...instrument booms and two solar panels are fully extended, the OGOs are 49 ft. long and almost 20 ft. wide, the biggest scientific satellites yet produced. According to TRW project Manager Ralph C. Turkolu, "the OGOs are to previous satellites what a jet is to a glider...