Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN I HAVE A SON by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Hilary Knight (Harper & Row; $1.95). This small book, highly reminiscent of Mr. Knight's best-known Eloise, will be fun for both child and parent. "My son," says John, speaking for all young boys, "won't have to take piano. He'll never have to go to sleep till he finishes the chapter, and he can have triple malteds just before dinner...
...peak altitude of 261,000 ft., Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft in a near vacuum. "Let's try and get them on," radioed back Major William ("Pete") Knight, a fellow X-15 pilot who was monitoring Adams from the ground. Then Adams, with a curt "Yep," signaled that he was back in control...
...voice was matter of fact; Knight droned back instructions for the scientific tests, then warned Adams to check his angle of glide...
...keep it up, Mike," radioed Knight. "Let's keep it up." But he heard no more from the X-15. Nobody saw it slam into the sparse Mojave Desert sagebrush 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Adams was aboard-the first man to die in an X-15. He did not-or could not-use the ejection device that might have parachuted him to safety...
Tuesday, November 21 WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Darren McGavin, Sean Garrison, Shirley Knight. Nancy Malone, Ossie Davis and Edmond O'Brien in The Outsider, a made-for-TV detective movie...