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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice but to give her the title. "We've got a real champion this year," said Magnate Maytag, who was delighted with the way Roz had cleaned up his course. "She doesn't have to apologize to anyone." Said Owner Jim Waugh. who got his champion sight unseen in a trade: "She's a hunting fool...
PILOTLESS LANDING systems are in sight for nation's commercial and military aircraft. New robot system developed by Bell Aircraft Corp. electronically "locks in" plane's controls in the air, uses radio-radar-computer ground unit to ease in craft for three-point landing. Developed for Navy, system has gone through 1,200 successful test landings and Bell says it will make possible entirely automatic landings in any weather...
...Here was an educated, dedicated fanatic, a man of ideals, of courage and of remarkable qualities of leadership," Matthews wrote. Dressed in olive-drab fatigues and carrying a sniper's rifle with a telescopic sight, Castro seemed idolized by his men. Asked how he got supplies, Castro flashed a stack of pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them...
Hail to the Chieftain. About the only buildings in sight that could qualify as architecture were some modern boxy structures put up by Europeans. But they were Mediterranean in style, not equatorial, and were made of concrete, which soaks up the sun's blasts all day and reradiates them all night. In addition, air conditioning could not be trusted, as Accra's sparse electric power often fails...
...from the time Lindbergh fell asleep in mid-Atlantic, from the fishing boat he hailed ("Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...