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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Old Pro Under Power | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Sifting the Evidence. In Salt Lake City, summoned by Mrs. Connie Johnson to catch a prowler, police fired two tear gas shells into her attic, set the whole second story afire, after inspection of the charred wreckage reported: "No prowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land masses, but in a few places they run ashore, forming, for instance, the steep-sided Jordan Valley and the famous rift system in East Africa which contains both Lake Tanganyika and the Red Sea. Another crack runs ashore in Mexico, to form the Gulf of California and the Imperial Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Oceans Grew | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers; the union has no national strike war chest. Despite their handicaps, the workers are also determined to see the strike through. Said Earl Bester, boss of 22,000 strikers in the Lake Superior region: "I won't say we're happy, but we're not weakening. We can hold out till spring if we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel: Toward October | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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