Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Base, Calif., "in sustained flight at more than 2,000 miles an hour and at altitudes in excess of 70,000 ft." It boasts a range of "thousands of miles." Until now the all-round, highest-performance aircraft in the U.S. has been the Navy's F-4B (Phantom II), which flies at a top speed of 1,650 m.p.h., and at altitudes up to 98,000 ft. Aerodynamicists who have studied the configuration of the new, missile-like All, agree that its design may well make it capable of speeds of Mach 5 (more than 4,000 miles...
...Phantom Cut. Few people are as optimistic as Heller about the benefits of a tax cut. There are those who argue that a level of 5% unemployed has become a structural feature of the U.S. economy. Not even large Government retraining programs to teach new skills will dent the problem, they insist, because nearly half of the jobless are so inadequately schooled that they lack the basic education necessary to build a retraining program around. The world's wealthiest nation has found no way to cope with the fact that some of its citizens have no useful place...
...company, is less daring than his father, Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., 71. As for McDonnell, its flinty Chairman James McDonnell, 64, would have liked the SST to satisfy his burning personal ambition to build a commercial jetliner. But his St. Louis plant is jammed with orders for F-4 Phantom fighter planes and Gemini capsules, simply lacks the space and specialists to handle the huge job. Jim McDonnell tried last March to take over Douglas to strengthen his position for the SST running, but the Douglas board rejected...
...White Sands Missile Range, he saw an Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...
Wright's Lawd Today was never published during his life, and it predates Native Son, which established his reputation. It tells of a dreadful day in the dreadful life of Jake Jackson, a faceless phantom of insulted life from Chicago's black ghetto. Greedy, but with never enough ham hocks and collard greens, lecherous, but always frustrated, aggressive, but always a victim (even to his beaten, tumor-plagued wife, who cuts him up bad at the end of a long, long day), Jake is no left-wing stereotype of a good man. He and society match each other...