Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconceivable to me.'' cried crusty U.S. Navy Captain Douglas Dismukes in 1925, "that an officer with my record should be passed over for promotion to admiral." Largely to appease Sea Dog Dismukes, who, although credited with saving the torpedoed transport Mount Vernon in World War I, was being forced into retirement because of age, Congress that year passed the so-called "Tombstone Law." Under it, all battle-cited Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers are promoted one grade upon being piped out of service. This allowed a generous wash of war-decorated four-stripe captains, for example...
Equipped for the occasion with a Mirage III jet fighter, Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 41, daughter-in-law of former French President Vincent Auriol, shot up to 37,000 ft. and gunned the ship to a new women's air speed record: 1,336 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...
Most remarkable record in this season's book belongs to little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Face, relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 22). Last week Face beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6, to make his record a startling 17-0, and to extend his winning streak over two seasons to 22 games. Face has not lost since May 30, 1958, has often been helped by the happy knack of the Pirates of winning extra-inning games (18 out of 20 this year). Baseball's leaders, with four weeks to play...
...pushed Challenger I until her four engines caught at 80 m.p.h. Mile markers whipped past like rungs in a picket fence as the pale blue, aluminum-bodied car made a pass up and down the range at an average speed of 330.513 m.p.h.-64 m.p.h. faster than the American record he set last year...
...even that was not fast enough for Thompson. Later this month he plans to take a crack at the world's land-speed record of 394.196 m.p.h. set in 1947 by Britain's John Cobb. The hot-rodders who turn respectfully on the salt flats to watch Thompson are confident that he will eventually hit 400 m.p.h. in Challenger I. And so is Mickey Thompson: "There's plenty more where that 330 came from...