Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister ship and prototype also exploded on a test flight and plunged into Chesapeake Bay. Reason for the first crash, in which all four crewmen were killed: malfunction of the tail-control surfaces that forced the sea-jet into a wild loop while flying close to the speed of sound...
...embassy; he deals with it. An attack is made in the House of Commons; he chooses his line of defense without hesitation. At the level of specific answer to specific questions he is far more decisive and less of a procrastinator than Churchill. (When he was waked from a sound sleep to receive Bulganin's note, his first reaction was to begin drafting a reply-not to call experts for an assessment of Russian intentions or to check on Brit ain's defense capabilities...
Died. Robert James Woods, 52, chunky co-founder (in 1935) with the late Lawrence D. Bell (TIME. Oct. 29) of Bell Aircraft Corp., who designed the X-1 jet, the first plane to fly faster than sound (at Muroc, Calif., in 1947), of a heart attack; in Grand Island...
Ridd says his good health and sound mind at 65 are due to "reaching the utmost power of concentration." He claims that any student can reach the same level, providing he is willing to concentrate fully and open his mind to the revelations (and peace) that will inevitably follow. The Chief emphasizes that he can only show the student the basic techniques of the art, while final achievement rests solely on the individual...
...tenure appointment is set by the University at $400,000, this is indeed a difficult problem with which to deal. Dean John C. Snyder of the Public Health School estimates that $2.5 million would be the minimum amount with which "we could stabilize the school and proceed on a sound basis...