Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane, found it loaded with M1 and M2 rifles, Thompson submachine guns and ammunition. Hormel flew in a commercial airliner to Miami. "I'll be back in a week," he said...
...EDGAR K. THOMPSON Captain, U.S.N. Washington...
...Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...
THOMAS GAGE'S TRAVELS IN THE NEW WORLD (379 pp.)-Edifed and with an Introduction by J. Eric S. Thompson-University of Oklahoma...
Ground controllers at the Space Technology Laboratory of Thompson Ramo Woolridge Corp. in Inglewood, Calif, will study the flight closely. At the proper instant, an Air Force tracking station in Honolulu will trigger the probe's own rocket, guiding it so that the moon sweeps it in. Then the probe can make a lazy, 50-hour pass around the moon, performing such chores as sending an electric-eye view of the moon's unseen face. Theoretically, the moon could sling the vehicle back to earth in a figure-eight-shaped voyage (TIME, June...