Word: immelmanns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribute to German Aviator Max Immelmann, best remembered for the looping flight maneuver that bears his surname...
World War I Ace Max Immelmann earned two, as did Corporal Adolf Hitler, and now U.S. teen-agers are buying them by the gross. Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer's emblem and high school...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith was willing to give it a go-around anyway-"to epitomize the spirit of the moment." Back and forth along a Salisbury thoroughfare he pedaled and puffed on his new bicycle. Then, with a wrenching left turn that resembled a sideways Immelmann, he braked to a halt. "My cook-boy has a better bike than this," guffawed Ian. "Good old Smithy!" laughed the office workers who were watching...