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Kennedy called for a sizable cut ($138 million) in Eisenhower's $354 million request for the 6-70 program, the Air Force's Mach 3 bomber of the future, and hacked $50 million more from nuclear airplane development. Unexpected was the severe hatcheting of military installations: the Pentagon hopes to close down no fewer than 73 posts both in the U.S. and overseas, plans to reassign the 24,000 civilians who work at them...
...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...
Skid Landing. Coming down, White put his plane into a cautious glide that permitted it to slow to Mach 3. Then he opened his speed brakes: four doorlike vanes near the tail that open into the air stream to add drag. They brought him down to Mach 2, which is strolling speed for the X-15. He decelerated gradually to subsonic speed, was soon in position for his landing approach at Rogers Dry Lake. Three miles from the touchdown point, he jettisoned the fin under the tail to clear the landing skids, and skidded to a clean landing...
...itself could have talked, it might have complained about the heat of the flight. A thermocouple inside the wing recorded 675° F. Yet the structure did not fail, and the engineers are confident that it can take its design temperature of 1,200° F., reach Mach 6 and climb to 50 or perhaps 100 miles...
...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...