Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
Died. Chuck Thompson, 54, ace speedboat racer who, in 30 years of piloting everything from outboards to 200-m.p.h., unlimited-class hydroplanes, had copped just about every prize in the sport except the biggest-the Detroit Gold Cup; of a crushed chest following the disintegration of his hydroplane while jockeying for position at 160 m.p.h. in the 58th Gold Cup race on the Detroit River, thus becoming the fourth hydroplaner to die in competition in two weeks...
Died. Ernest O. Thompson, 74, world's foremost oil conservationist as a 32-year member and often chairman of the all-powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil flow (and in turn sets the pace for 30 lesser oil-producing states), who started in the days of unlimited production and prices of 10? per bbl., quickly devised a system of monthly quotas for every Texas well; of pneumonia; in Amarillo...
Soothing Fears. One reason for Thompson's widespread support among the assembly rank and file was his work on behalf of the most controversial item on the agenda: the Confession of 1967. First presented to the 1965 assembly, the new creed is intended to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647. The aim was to draft a new creed that did not abrogate any previous statement of faith accepted by the church, including the Apostles' Creed, but merely supplied a new emphasis to traditional belief...
...moderator, Thompson appointed a 15-man committee, reflecting a wide range of opinion within the church, charged with revising the Confession. He traveled widely across the nation last year listening to complaints, gathering suggestions, soothing fears. This year the committee presented a new draft of the creed that pleased both its critics and the theologians who drafted it originally. The revision includes a stronger statement on Christ's divinity, and "normative witness" became "witness without parallel." Without softening the emphasis on social morality, the revision added a statement on a crucial question of personal morality, deploring "anarchy" in sexual...