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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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By piecing together radar and telemetry data, film sequences and fragments of wreckage dipped from the shallow waters off the cape, missilemen managed to figure out what went wrong: the loft. long fiber glass "nose fairing" that was supposed to protect the third stage and payload from air friction and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: We're in Trouble | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

By day he flew only 100 ft. over the Atlantic, at night he climbed to 500 ft. He made hourly radio position reports, saw no other planes or ships, never got sleepy enough to use his stay-awake pills. After 28 hours, he sighted Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVENTURE: Like Old Times | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Thrashing in the water, Buie was too shocked with the cold to shout to the stern watch, tried swimming after his ship, then gave up. Nobody knew he was gone. Remembering his survival training, he quickly kicked off his shoes, stripped off his blue denim dungarees and knotted the pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Luckiest Afloat | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

"Khoroshy Chelovek." In the last five years of the Fourth Republic, while other diplomats in Paris tended to write off the Hermit of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Vinogradov told his staff, "Some day he will be back." On eight different occasions, he sought out the general for private interviews, usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mon Gaulliste | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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