Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preston holding area in New Jersey (see map), sped through Preston on instruments at speeds as high as 360 knots (v. standard jet holding speed of 220 knots). At that speed, it closed the distance between Preston and the instrument traffic approach for La Guardia Airport in i min., 51 sec. And at that speed, at an altitude of 5,400 ft., it collided with TWA's Super Constellation Flight 266, from Dayton and Columbus, approaching La Guardia Airport under instructions from the La Guardia tower...
...leading role in the Socialist movement," the new document merely observes that historically the Russian party is "universally recognized as the.vanguard of the world Communist movement." As if to underline Red China's view that Moscow has a primacy only in time, the Peking party daily Jen Min Jih Pao editorialized that henceforth all Communist parties are "completely equal and independent." Instead of talking of the "monolithic unity of the Socialist camp," the communique spoke of the "comity" of Communist states...
Western Europe last week was amazed and bemused at the sight of the rich U.S. suddenly talking like a poor relation. Cartoonists pictured a tattered Ike holding out his hat as horrified Economics Min ister Ludwig Erhard told West German Chancellor Adenauer, "He says we have to make the same sacrifices in peacetime as we did during the war!" In Bonn, at a dinner given by the U.S. embassy for Secretary of the Treasury Anderson, one very senior German whispered jokingly to a colleague: "I hope the ambassador can afford to feed us." The London Daily Herald had a nice...
...monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After studying the records, Dr. Troitskaya decided that the final Argus blast on Sept 6, exploded a small fraction of a second from 10 hr. 12 min. 34 sec. p.m. Greenwich mean time. At last week's end this figure was still classified information...
...Aggravate & Friend. With Author Lerner, ulcer and all, doubling for sorely missed Director Hart but too busy re-writing to spend much time in the theater Camelot moved forward of its own weight, only slightly trimmed from its original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast settled into general uncertainty. Knights were complaining that their chain mail was wearing out and tempers were wearing out too. When a dancer tripped over a piece of scenery last week, Set Designer Smith was heard to snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical...