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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school speedster from Los Altos, Calif., scored a major upset early in the three-day meet by beating Australian Murray Rose in the 220-yd. freestyle with a record-smashing time of two minutes flat. Picking up momentum, he flailed through the 100-yd. freestyle in 46.8 sec.-an achievement that ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds "in the right places" for added strength...
...shot upward at 35 degrees, its throttle only open to 75% of full power. Walker cut the engine after 93 sec., but already he was above 100,000 ft. and going 2,756 miles an hour. Coasting higher, he tested eight small rockets in the nose and two in each wing-a main objective of the flight. These form a control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California...
...Daimler SP-250 with cat-quick acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 9.5 sec.) and a $4,404 price...
...into a 30° climb. When he reached level flight at 75,000 ft., the X-15 spurted ahead. White slipped it sideways and wiggled its rudder to test control-and the strange airplane responded precisely. He shut off the engine after 125 sec. of operation. This was the instant of greatest speed: Mach...
Died. James J. Caffrey, 63, blunt Boston lawyer, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1946 to 1947, onetime SEC investigator whose doggedness helped expose McKesson & Robbins President Philip Musica and former New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney as stock swindlers; of a heart attack; in Durban, South Africa...