Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop at a cafeteria one morning last week, drank a cup of black coffee, then went on to work at the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Palmdale, Calif. There, at Air Force Plant 42, ruddy, husky (5 ft. 8 in.. 170 Ibs.) Pilot Johnson squirmed into a pressure suit, picked up his helmet, oxygen mask and parachute, walked out to a dainty, needle-nosed F-104A Starfighter, a silvery sliver of jet aircraft with short (7½ ft.), knife-edged wings. Johnson checked the plane carefully: 5,000 Ibs. of fuel, no armament, a special package of instruments whose...
...purpling sky streaked the Starfighter-50,000 ft., then 60,000, then 70,000. Laconically, Johnson radioed Edwards tower, made certain that the radar trackers still carried him on their screens. Now, 80,000 ft.: Johnson's pressurized cockpit altitude was 45,000 ft., and his pressure suit automatically inflated with oxygen from a bottle beneath his seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked off on the stick, nosed up and over...
...government had won only a round. There was still the possibility that Cousins' strike might make other unions follow suit. In Manchester 126,000 chemical workers, and in South Wales the Mineworkers' Union, were already making threats. So were the heads of Britain's three top railroad unions, who could really bring things to a standstill. To the government, worried by inflation, the basic issue was defense of the pound. Said Macmillan: "What is needed is a general acceptance of the fact that to pay ourselves more in wages or profits for the same amount of output...
...photography to give a teen-ager the Brigitters and to accelerate his grandfather's Bardotage. Though Brigitte wears more than 15 costumes, one suitcase could easily carry the lot. When not wearing a bikini, she wriggles about in tutus, tights and gossamer nighties. Once she wears a pirate suit that is slashed at the most astonishing points...
Caldwell looks like a non-Ivy League football coach, though he was wearing a neat grey suit, light tie, and crew cut for his visit. He smoked nearly all the time. He has almost no accent, "but I can drop back into a Southern accent whenever I want...