Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Times. Jack Northrop began designing an all-weather interceptor six years ago, when no enemy had any A-bombs to drop on the U.S. Northrop has i habit of looking ahead. A onetime garage mechanic, he helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing...
...Trabert were taking their header at Orange, Art Larsen and Herb Flam sailed through their singles matches against the Mexican Davis Cup team at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y. Then the doubles team of Flam & Vic Seixas polished off Mexico's brother combination of Armando & Rolando Vega to put the U.S. into the American zone finals against Canada...
...first things Pastor Vega did was to apply to the Episcopal Church for affiliation-independent of that church's Mexican mission district across the border. Next, he built a new church-a simple white frame building with bright wall paper and gold altar hangings. Then he turned his attention to the children. He took over an abandoned restaurant and turned it into a nursery school. There, three-to seven-year-olds learn English to prepare for regular schooling later...
McKinney's Mexican settlement is no longer a place apart. Because of Father Vega's work, Texas businessmen donate milk and food to the nursery, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and other civic groups are fixing up a park for the settlement, and the local post of the Legion has invited Mexican veterans to join it for the first time...
Last week Father Vega was turning to other problems. Recently, he agreed to double as pastor of a Mexican Catholic congregation in Fort Worth. What he has done in McKinney he wants to do again...