Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach 2 F4H McDonnell fighter. Last week Schirra's son, Marty, 8, chortled to his third-grade classmates: "My Dad is going on a rocket to the moon!" Replied a friend nonchalantly: "Have him bring me back a piece of green cheese...
...seated on imitation mushrooms in the Blue Forest, are half a dozen moppets. Brigid sings her charges a song, offers a quiet moral (letter writing is a good thing), and manages to keep her wings on even when things go a little wrong, as they did when one recent guest announced plainly: "I hate you. Blue Fairy...
...cuts only the varsity will make the trip. On May 2 the lightweights will play host to Dartmouth and M.I.T. in the Biglin Cup races. The following weekend the varsity runs into the really heavy competition when it meets Princeton and Yale in New Jersey. Both schools have in recent years consistently produced strong lightweight crews; either or both could come up with a winner...
...recent edition of the Yale Daily News told of the "defending champion Elis" opening their Eastern Intercollegiate League season by blanking Army, 9 to 0. Well, last May 14, coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity defeated Yale, 6 to 3, to win the Eastern League title and will open their defense of that crown against the same Army club on the Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today...
...Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, who gives Nat. Sci. 4, said that "if any sweeping changes are going to be made in the Natural Sciences, I am not going to make them. I hope, of course, to improve my course, but I will not make any changes because of recent developments," he added...