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...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, began the long drop down. He had shot 91,249 ft. up into the sky-about two miles higher...
...some time. Concluded Reierson: "Admittedly, this appraisal runs counter to much of the economic thinking of our times, which takes for granted a quick return to long-term growth. Yet there is a real possibility that it may well take until the 1960s before the economy regains sufficient thrust to push industrial production to sustained new peaks...
...veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it; and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns were rolled up by hand a little further to the front, were quite all the sounds that could be heard...
...lone varsity score came at 14:15 of the third period, after Dartmouth had tallied eleven times. Jerry Cotter shot from thirty-five feet and Nick Lamont intercepted the thrust in front of the cage...
Mallonee closed the scoring gap to 7 to 2 with an unassisted thrust at 0:22 of the fourth period, and Nick Lamont brought the score to 9 to 3 at 4:50 after a pass from Mallonee, but it was much too late to do any good. The Tigers ran the final count to 12 to 3 in the last eight minutes...