Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antennae brought more than voices. In a darkened end of the trailer, newsroom for the X-3's telemetering circuits, engineers stared intently at vertical lines of light on the faces of two oscilloscopes. The "green worms" were connected by electronics with 186 instruments tucked into the X3. Some of the lines crept upward slowly; some kept steady; some lengthened or shortened in quick little jumps. To a practiced eye they told almost everything about the ordeal of the distant X-3 and its watchful pilot. The lines of light measured the air speed and a host...
...echoing voices crackle over the channels, and the lines of light rise and fall on the scopes, the men in the crowded trailer feel warm identification with the man in the air. They leave the ground when he does, hurtle through the sky in his ungentled airplane. Their hearts skip a beat when his does-and sometimes before. Their muscles tense with his. Bill Bridgeman feels the same intimate way about his phantom crew miles away on the ground. "They're right with me," he says, "watching every little thing. I don't even have to ask them...
...winner, at an average speed of 86.4 m.p.h.: dapper, greying Jim Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...
...heart attack in 1943, another in 1952. In 1951 he turned up as a charity patient in a Philadelphia hospital for an operation on a lip cancer. Pro baseball and other groups raised a little money to get Jim back on his feet. Last week, in his auto trailer outside Los Angeles, the Old Indian, 64, had his last heart attack...
After the Matlocks started south, a northbound trailer truck driven by John Scarantino passed through Washington. Three miles outside Washington, Scarantino (whose New Jersey driving rights were revoked last year when he failed to appear in court on a charge of passing on a curve) swerved into the left-hand lane to avoid a truck parked on the shoulder ahead of him. He saw the oncoming Matlock car too late. All of the Matlocks except Raymond were killed outright; Raymond died next morning, on his birthday...