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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked off on the stick, nosed up and over, began the long drop down. He had shot 91,249 ft. up into the sky-about two miles higher than the previous world's record.*It had taken precisely 27 minutes...
...Bell Aircraft's X2, carried aloft by a mother plane, reached 126,000 ft. The previous world's record (unofficial) in ground-to-air flights-80,190 ft.-was made a fortnight ago by a French Trident...
...beating Yale, the Crimson would virtually assure itself of the first Eastern Intercollegiate League championship it has ever won alone in league history. The only previous Crimson first-place finishes were ties in the late...
However, unlike previous occasions, firemen had no complaints yesterday about parked cars blocking their way to the fire...
Brooks House supervised the drive this March, but in previous years it had been operated by Council-appointed chairmen, with at least nominal Council supervision...