Word: runway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for a laboratory check of dead starlings on the runway, after Gen. Elwood Quesada, Federal Aviation Administrator, theorized that the plane hit a flock of birds on the runway...
...next morning that the starlings were killed about the time the ill-fated plane crashed into Winthrop Bay. After examining remains of the birds, Paynter could ascertain that they died late in the afternoon, that they were hit by some powerful object, and that they were on the airport runway...
...assigned 20,000 workers to the task. East Germany's Communists tut-tutted at West Germany for buying its airliners abroad, and Neues Deutschland boasted that the BB-152 - a stubby four-engine turbojet designed to travel 500 m.p.h. and land safely on only 3,300 ft. of runway-would put the East Germans "into the forefront of international commercial aviation...
Landing at Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair...
...hours at a stretch. In April, under the anxious eye of U.C.L.A. Track Coach Ducky Drake, he tried sprint starts. But Johnson and his coach were most afraid of back-wrench ing jumps. At last, in late spring, Johnson took a deep breath and started down the pole-vault runway. He cleared the bar-and plummeted into the sawdust without a twinge. Johnson was back on the track...