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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...
...before his concept was tried, Conrey was killed in an aircraft-carrier landing accident. But now he has won post-mortem recognition. In a report on tests made at Mesa in 1964, the Navy has predicted "a definite and vital place in future aviation" for the circular runway...
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...
...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...
...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...