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Word: mesa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked, circular General Motors test track at Mesa, Ariz.-and persuaded the Navy to get G.M.'s permission for landing and takeoff tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: New Directions | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

Perched in remote splendor on a 7,300-ft. mesa between New Mexico's Jemez Mountains and the Pojoaque Valley, Los Alamos has neither rich nor poor among its 15,000 inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Mexico: The Suburb Without the Urb | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Viet Cong claimed they would tend it until Dawson could come back after the war to recover the body of his brother, shot down last Nov. 6 in a light reconnaissance plane. For Don, it was time to go home to his wife and four children in Costa Mesa, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1965 | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...catch his hero's performance. "Any mulligans?" hollered Barry jovially to the crowd. But he certainly didn't need any free shots, slamming 200-yd. drives until on the sixth hole he hooked the ball into the spectators, specifically Wilbur Allen. Allen ended up in Mesa Lutheran Hospital with several stitches in his cheek; but medicare hasn't gained a partisan, for Goldwater is footing the bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 19, 1965 | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Punitive Punch. For the first time, Washington then ordered armed jet fighters to escort the recons, but disaster nearly repeated itself. Again over Ban Ban, a Navy F-8A Crusader escort, flown by Commander Doyle W. Lynn, 37, of La Mesa, Calif., was shot down by the Reds. Lynn likewise bailed out, but after a harrowing night in the tiger-inhabited jungle, he was rescued by a U.S. helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Escalation in the Air | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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