Word: mach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help build a quarter-scale model of the X-1 to be dropped from a B-29 at 35,000 ft. to determine its ability to withstand the stresses of breaking the sound barrier. Rigged with sensitive instruments, the model measured and relayed the effects of near Mach 1 to engineers huddled in a couple of old trailers−one of the first uses of the telemetry that was to become so important in space-flight control...
...Noland's Mach 2 (and all of Stella's pictures) illustrates Fried's second key "formal issue," the growing dependence of the shape of the composition and the shape of the canvas in the surface unity. The edge of the canvas is one of the limits (not boundaries) of the painted chevrons. The dramatic shape of the canvas is not determined by an arbitrary circumference; it is part and parcel of the shapes of the fields of color. Each chevron marks off a parallelogram of different size but of similar proportions. The whole constantly intermingles with the parts...
...American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...
...situation was laid to Nikita Khrushchev, who allegedly did not want to encourage warlike feelings among children. Pravda, on the other hand, called attention to unsold stocks of toys ($180 million worth in 1963), blamed central planners for misconstruing the public taste. "These monsters of plush, pâpier-maché, wood and stainless steel are costing the state a pretty kopeck," the paper warned...