Word: hits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youngest Captain. Although Yankee Clipper capsized as it hit the water, the astronauts quickly righted their craft by inflating three large flotation bags attached to its tip. Lifted aboard the aircraft carrier by helicopter, the crew was hustled into the same mobile quarantine van that housed the men of Apollo 11. Soon afterward, they were cheered by a call from President Nixon, who told the three Navy commanders that he was promoting them to captain. That made the 37-year-old Al Bean the Navy's youngest to attain the rank...
...Soviet-made Sukhoi-7, the basic Soviet tactical attack aircraft. It is the first Sukhoi to fall into Western hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli pilots who have flown it find that the Sukhoi reaches a Mach 1.6 speed, climbs at the rate...
...stunning revival of the Excursions of Mr. Brouček was a hit last summer at West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, as was the Stockholm Royal Opera's The Makropulos Case in Munich last month. The San Francisco Opera gave Jenufa its first professional performance last week on the West Coast. "Pile-driving drama," critics raved. "Music that stabs, jabs, spins, lunges, pecks, soars." This week 185 stations will carry National Educational Television's color production of From the House of the Dead, which is likely to provide an hour-and-a-half of emotional shock...
Using a full-court zone press, a rarity for Crimson teams. Harvard, missing several free throw opportunities, traded points with St. John's. Then Redmen captain Joe DePre, scoring leader with 20 tallies, hit on two jump shots and a base line drive, and St. John's led narrowly. 32-29. at halftime...
...freshman game. St. John's forward Bill Schaeffer, whose 30 points led all scorers, hit a short jumper underneath with three seconds left in the game to tip the Yardlings...