Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week got off to a big start with the parade, which stopped traffic cold in the Loop for four hours and a half. Maybe 12,000 people marched-some counted 46 floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates...
...walked around the Loop last week could be sure that no matter where he found a Lion he would hear earnest talk like that of Beechview's Cook. "One human being helping another -that's Lionism," he said, while Harriett nodded. "Service to humanity-that's Lionism. It makes you feel good...
...Brett, skipper of the 355th Fighter Squadron and son of World War II's Lieut. General George H. Brett, now retired. West Pointer Brett, 34, veteran jet pilot, had hit the zero-gravity state for a few seconds on countless occasions, especially at the beginning of an outside loop, but he had never before been asked to try for zero gravity and hold it as long as possible. So the mission developed into a new experience for both pilot and passenger...
...Highest human: Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., who got to 126,000 ft. (24 miles) in the U.S.A.F.'s X2, for "a couple of minutes" in 1956. * About 38 hours, piled up in hundreds of missions and thousands of maneuvers (flying a Keplerian trajectory or parabolic outside-loop curve in high-speed jet airplanes), for periods from 30 to 43 seconds...
...Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...