Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once as solidly entrenched as a Deep South Democratic machine, Michigan's Republican Party has not won an important state election in seven years. Principal reason: G.O.P. liberals and Old Guard-ists, after mauling each other, are too beat to put up much of a fight against the smoothly...
Quickly Pilot Baum took over, told Berke to help him roll the giant plane back to the left. The 707 came up straight and level, then rolled beyond to the left. With only the right inboard engine remaining, Pilot Baum thought fast, decided that he lacked the power to roll...
Braniff man, Pilot Frank Staley, grabbed a seat near the front. Baum made a couple of descending spirals, wove between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave...
The mayors were still flying when their aircraft stopped at the ramp at Tyndall. Mayor Healy, in fact, swayed so much as he egg-walked down the steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a...
More Dead Than Alive. Next day, as the 100 or so other Air Force guests crowded around closed-circuit TV sets at Tyndall to watch the high-altitude shoots, Healy and Fitzpatrick. who did not show up for the demonstration, decided that they had had enough of that "William Tell...