Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher and higher into the 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...
...20th floor of Manhattan's slick Coliseum Tower one bleak, humid afternoon last week, a flock of paunchy, proud fathers-to-be tried to conceal their expectancy behind a normal day's office routine. Sympathetic friends sat heavily in blue-flowered armchairs or toured a chrome-polished kitchen, which, their uneasy host boasted, was "bigger than General Sarnoff's." Then at 3 p.m. the baby was born. The baby: New York area's newest stations-WNTA A.M. and P.M., and WNTA-TV (Channel...
...Letdown. In the Dyess control tower, Obie's boss, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Perna, got on the mike...
...minutes past midnight-two hours since the trouble had begun-when Obie turned into his final approach. He was too high, too far to the left of the runway. "I didn't have time to think. The GCA station was telling me to go around. The tower told me to go around-everybody in the world told me to go around. I didn't say one word. I just kept coming in. I felt I had used every bit of energy I ever had. I didn't have enough visibility. I couldn't make out anything...
Died. Ernest Eden Norris, 76, longtime (1937-51) president of the Southern Railway Co., "the guy''-according to Frisco line President Clark Hungerford-"who brought the Southern from doldrums to dividends," father of Novelist Frank Collan (Tower in the West) Norris; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A lifetime railroader who began his career in his teens, Norris ceaselessly patrolled the Southern in his office car, knew every foot of the road's 8,000 miles of track, once walked away from a wreck and waited until that evening to have a broken collarbone set with...