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...fire, the Cheyenne will pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Lockheed's Flying Gyroscope | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...help may be on the way. One observer was startled yesterday when he first walked into the Cage, and looked in on a bunting session -- and there without a helmet or pads was Vic Gatto...

Author: By James R. Beniger and Richard D. Paisner, S | Title: A Circus in Carey Cage? No, Early Spring Baseball | 3/29/1967 | See Source »

...double-breasted pinstripe jackets. At Dartmouth, the particular "drinking uni" (for uniform) at the moment is the "blow-lunch look" (so called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying Ace helmet, complete with ear flaps and shrapnel holes. At Harvard, the grapevine passes the word around within hours whenever Secondhand Deal er Max Keezer or "Morgie's" (Goodwill Industry's Morgan Memorial) gets in any old taxi-driver hats or brownand-white shoes, and some Harvards are even beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The Follies That Come with Spring | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...first three U.S. astronauts to die on duty were motionless and earth-bound when they were killed last week. With helmet faceplates closed and suits pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods. But it's also a good idea to wear a helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: The Blood Sport | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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