Word: paired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial contributors. As the date of Kovac's leave-taking approached, Kelly and three assistants made a nighttime raid on Kovac's office, spent 1½ hours rummaging around in full view of three finance-committee staffers, jimmied open desk drawers, carted off for further inspection a pair of locked file-safes...
...JONES: IT'S NOT UNUSUAL (Parrot). Now it is a Welsh miner's son, a curlyheaded six-footer with a bronze voice and a pair of leather lungs, who belts out Chuck Berry songs like Memphis Tennessee. Jones dips into folk as well (Skye Boat Song), but runs down in sentimental ballads like It's Just a Matter of Time...
...Call Me 'Doctor.' " After a cordial reception in Houston early in the week, the pair zipped off to Chicago. No fewer than a million whooping people jammed curbstones and upper-floor windows and let fly with a blizzard of ticker tape that all but buried McDivitt and White as they rode in a parade down State Street and Michigan Avenue. That over, the astronauts flew to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where each was solemnly awarded a newly created honorary degree -a doctorate of astronautical science. Already both had been nominated by the President for promotion...
...Share the Thrills." Lyndon praised the pair publicly as "the Christopher Columbuses of the 20th century," then whispered to them privately: "You are going to spend the night and have dinner with us. Down in my country that's the way we show our affection...
...aluminum skin, the M2-F2 measures 22 ft. 2 in. long and 9 ft. 7 in. wide at its broadest point (the tail). To control the glider's descent once it reaches the atmosphere, the pilot has a rudder on each tail fin for turning, a pair of flaps on the top of the aft section of the body for upward pitch and roll adjustments, and a single flap under the aft section for downward pitch. If angle of descent becomes too sharp, the pilot can fire the two small thruster rockets on board. Wings are not necessary...