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...world speed record of 352.39 m.p.h. in 1935 in an aircraft of his own design. He was named the world's outstanding aviator for the year, and President Roosevelt later presented him with the Harmon Trophy. In 1938 he flew around the world in a record 91 hr. 14 min., was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway that surpassed Lindbergh's. Hughes' big flop of World War II−a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat dubbed the "Spruce Goose," which was only 11 ft. 4 in. shorter than today's 747 superjet...
...garrison in South Viet Nam even after Vietnamization is complete. CAMBODIA: Protected by U.S. helicopter gunships in the air and by Secret Service men on the ground, Agnew made an unannounced, though scheduled visit to a capital city less than ten miles away from the fighting. His 4-hr. 50-min. stopover in Phnom-Penh was explicity intended to demonstrate, both to the Lon Nol government and the Communists attacking it, that "we are not going to stand idly by in the sense of rendering economic and material assistance when free countries are invaded." Agnew repeated to newsmen what...
...bill is called the Defense Facilities and Industrial Security Bill (HR=14864) and is sponsored in the Senate by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security...
...maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York passenger-plane flight record of 20 hr...
Last week, as Soyuz 9 completed its 220th swing around the earth, Cosmo nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the endurance mark for space travel set in 1965 by As tronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman aboard Gemini 7 (13 days, 18 hr...