Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Vargas' enforced resignation lay President Carlos Garcia's well-justified nervousness about next fall's Philippine senatorial elections. In the two years since Magsaysay's death in a plane crash elevated him to the presidency, high-living Carlos Garcia has become identified with economic mismanagement and governmental corruption; in the Philippine Senate last week a member of Garcia's own Nacionalista Party charged that 16 of the President's intimates, including his son-in-law and two of his brothers, had engaged in large-scale influence peddling. If General Vargas used the army...
...Army has ordered a device that will print photographs on the ground moments after they are taken by a reconnaissance plane in the air. Made by Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., the airborne unit is basically an instant-processing device, which produces negatives seconds after the camera's shutter has clicked, and a telemetry scanner, which transmits the negative to the ground-all contained in a 45-lb. package about the size of two shoe boxes. The ground unit picks up the televised signal, produces a finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received...
Long entered John Sealy Hospital Saturday after a semi-secret flight from Baton Rogue, the Louisiana capital, in a National Guard plane...
...cross-country realm, Jared E. Fitzgerald '61, who always has had his own transportation paid by the team, pointed out that "some of the kids go out for the team in the hope of doing a little travelling." For the Cornell trip, however, only seven runners went by plane, and the others were forced to drive...
Fitgzerald continued, saying that "the strange thing is that some of the guys who drove up did better than the guys who took the plane." He also wondered why the University goes out of its way to attract athletes and then refuses to support them. "It's especially hard for guys on the borderline; they do their darndest for the school, then they have to take the car," he stated...