Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of their progress. They feel you should tell the American people of the other devoted members of the project whose time, labor and efforts have been as important to their return to life as even the surgery itself. The three men who have made their trip possible and who have been saintly in their care for them have been Mr. Norman Cousins, Dr. Arthur Barsky and Dr. William M. Hitzig. Dr. Hitzig, who brought to fruition Mr. Cousins' inspiration to bring the maidens to America, has been the medical director and has been a dear father, bringing smiles...
...would be a quiet trip home on Columbine III, and a man could ask for no more delightful way to go. As Ike enters his own door, passing the big Presidential Seal pasted on the plane's silver-sheathed fuselage, he will board one of the most comfortable and air-ready vehicles that ever left earth...
Waiting for the trip home, Columbine's commander, Lieut. Colonel William G. Draper, who flew Ike at SHAPE, kept his eight-man crew in peak sharpness. They flew around Denver at least four hours a week (minimum: 30 hours monthly), made at least one weekly round trip to Washington at the 13,000-to-15,000-ft. altitude planned for taking the President home. "A flying plane," said Pilot Draper, "is a safe plane...
...Lockheed's factory school in Burbank, Calif. Every three months the pilots go through a rigid flight test under the gimlet eyes of top Air Force inspectors. Before each flight they plan how to buckle on Ike's parachute within 30 seconds. Before the President takes a trip, they may fly thousands of miles from Washington merely to practice instrument landings at his destination. They are prepared to fly anywhere in the world on two hours' notice...
After the entering freshman steps off the railroad train at South Station, he walks down a confusing maze of stairways to await a subway train to the Square. Once he is crowded into the unesthetic interior of the subway car, he has begun his first trip on what will form one of the staples of his life at Harvard...