Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Rogers reached 40,000 ft., he leveled off, and a ground radar guided him toward the 18 km. (eleven mile) course that is specified by the F.A.I. (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) in Paris. He lit the afterburner and opened the fuel control to the...
Pilot Rogers covered the course twice at an average speed of 1,525.95 m.p.h., as measured by radar, tracking cameras and two men lying on their backs on the desert, sighting upward past tight-stretched wires that marked start and finish. The metal skin of the F106 touched 340°...
The new altitude record was set by Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing...
There was nothing unusual in the fact that John W. Hay, 49, was "a dental coward" and neglected his teeth so long that for two months he had to spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing...
Pushbutton Draperies. Local leaders in dentistry had assured Hay that such a hospital was not only desirable but necessary. An estimated 9,000 patients annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general...