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Hoffmann also stated that since North Vietnam has no desire to become a Chinese satellite, it wants to involve the Soviet Union in the situation. "By playing the Soviets against the Chinese," he explained, "they hope to escape from the Chinese grip...
...practically every tournament since he joined the U.S. pro circuit in 1957, and whose 1965 winnings, going into last week's Crosby, totaled exactly $0. But Crampton was taking lessons. And from whom? Jack Nicklaus. "Jack noticed that I was hooding my drives," said Crampton. "He adjusted my grip at the top, and that forced me to open my clubface at impact. Then he stood there and watched me hit for 45 minutes. I am grateful that a man of his stature should take the time with a nobody like...
Inheritance alone would not give him his grip and facility at 23; with us hereditary statesmen and party leaders ripen later. Perhaps it is his American strain to which he adds a keenness, a shrewdness, a half-cynical personal ambition, a natural aptitude for advertisement, and happily, a sense of humor...
Novel Control. At 10,000 ft. over Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Test Pilot Richard L. Johnson began the critical maneuver that is the F-111's reason for being. In the instrument-crammed cockpit, he reached for a novel control: a pistol grip that can be moved backward and forward like a trombone slide. He pushed it forward, and the wings responded by folding backward. He moved them first to 26 degrees of sweep, then 43 degrees, at last to 72 degrees. In this highspeed condition, the F-111 looked like a schoolboy's folded...
...while, pilots and engineers argued about the wing control. One faction held that when the pistol grip was pulled backward, the wings should fold backward in concert. Others insisted that since all pilots are trained to push engine throttles forward when they want more speed, they might get confused at a dangerous moment if they were compelled to pull the wing control backward for the same effect. The second faction won. Now, with a plane that can fly to any place in the world in a single day, F-111 pilots will still be handling controls as familiar and reliable...