Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop 11 hr. 6 min...
...gifted street brawler as a youth, got married at 17, fathered a son and daughter and was later divorced. But Johansson has long since settled down, is now a shrewd investor of his fight earnings, owns profitable construction and fishing companies in Sweden. For working 8 min. 3 sec. last week, Entrepreneur Johansson earned an estimated $250,000 (v. Patterson...
...sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from Casablanca in a 250-h.p., single-engined aircraft, beating by some 700 miles the previous distance record for light planes. His time in the air: 58 hrs. 38 min...
From Seattle last week, the first of the new Boeing intercontinental jet transports, the 707-320, whipped over the top of the world to Rome in n hr. 6 min., breaking the 4,225-mile nonstop commercial record claimed by the Russians with their TU-114. For overseas jet passengers, the new plane's 5,830-mile flight means an eventual end to the stopoffs now necessary on many transatlantic jet hops with the 707-120, which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines...
...Senator from Oregon, onetime law professor, longtime political migrant who has been in turn a Progressive, Republican (until late '52), Independent and Democrat; credited with one of the Senate's keenest forensic minds; famed on Capitol Hill for windiness (he once orated nonstop for 22 hr. 26 min.), unpredictability, ferocity in debate, and a capacity for nursing grudges...