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...Freshman Hammond, 20, had been suspended in February for flying his Piper Super Cruiser without school authorization to a Mount Holyoke College dance. (After a bit of careless navigation, he overshot the dance and crashed in a New Hampshire cornfield.) More misadventures with an unauthorized car, including a trip to Florida, led to his expulsion. Only a few days before the riot, he had buzzed the campus in his plane and sprinkled it with empty beer cans...
...Turbo-Wasp, an intermediate jet type which drives a propeller. Hobbs pushed on to the pure-jet J-57, last January had the first model in a test block. As its blast shook the concrete floor of the test cell, Jack Homer said: "Well, I think we have overshot the field." Solemnly, an old Pratt & Whitney hand interposed: "We may have trouble with the landing gear." Asked the puzzled Horner: "What landing gear?" "I mean," said the Old Hand, "when we let the building back down...
Nevertheless, in Tokyo last week the Air Force stoutly-stood by its claims. Brigadier General William Nuckols, chief P.I.O. of the Far East Air Forces, said he was well aware that World War II's experience had proved that the communique claims of kills almost always overshot the facts. But he said that the Air Force had been making allowance for that. Proudly, Nuckols pointed out that for the two previous days, the Air Force had claimed enemy casualties of only 884, while the ground forces, in observing the results of the strikes, had estimated the same casualties...
Whiskies & Sherries. At 9:30 p.m., while the doctors and ambulances waited below, the crippled Viking circled overhead. Harvey let down for the landing, overshot the runway, and gunned his plane up again for another try. On the second try he made a good landing, got a loud cheer from waiting ground crewmen and the emergency squad. An ex-R.A.F. pilot looked at the holes in the ship's sides and said: "Not many came back that way during the war. A 4.5-inch shell couldn't have done worse...
...Camp McCauley airstrip near Linz, Austria, a Russian two-engine light bomber bounced on to the field, overshot the strip and crumpled into a fence. Out climbed a handsome Soviet air force lieutenant, English grammar in hand. "I is Russian pilot," he said. "Where is Linz...