Word: mach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climb. When he reached level flight at 75,000 ft., the X-15 spurted ahead. White slipped it sideways and wiggled its rudder to test control-and the strange airplane responded precisely. He shut off the engine after 125 sec. of operation. This was the instant of greatest speed: Mach...
...paign in 13 Western states, Lawyer Ted Kennedy, 28, took an apartment on Boston's Beacon Hill. Last week his immediate future seemed determined with the report that the ex-Harvard football player would become an assistant district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases...
...flights progress, the computers will keep track of them, alert the controllers if any plane is failing to live up to its flight plan. The first data-processing center is scheduled to be put into limited operation by late 1962 in Boston. By 1970, when the first Mach 3 airliners are expected to come into service, the computer network will be so complete, FAA men hope, that a plane will be able to have its landing clearance even before it takes...
...M.P.H. AIRLINER may be on the way. President Eisenhower will ask Congress for $75 million to start development of a Mach 3 supersonic transport, which would cruise at altitudes of 55,000-75,000 ft., carry as many as 150 passengers. Government would have to contribute about $500 million before the first SST could fly in 1970. A likely builder: North American Aviation, now making the 2,000-m.p.h...
...Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...