Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam to Japan. The only long-legged, modern transport in Tunner's stable is the turboprop C-133 Cargomaster, of which MATS counts a mere 29, with another...
...interest story and gave it the works. The story they had to tell, already familiar to U.S. newspaper readers, was the saga of four young Russian navymen who had drifted for 49 days across the Pacific in a 60-ft. landing craft, until rescued 1,200 miles north of Wake Island by the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge. In the Soviet telling, the U.S. came off well...
Panting around the world in father's wake, the Cousteau family covered so much ground that Jacques's earliest memory is of a tossing train hammock. At the age of ten, Jacques spent a year in a Manhattan apartment on the corner of 95th Street and Broadway. He and his older brother Pierre played stickhall in the streets, gained local fame by introducing two-wheeler European roller skates, and went to summer camp in Vermont...
...Radio Tap. When he was not yet 20, Markevitch studied conducting for several months with Scherchen ("Sometimes he would wake me up at two in the morning to say he felt in the mood to give me a lesson"). World War II helped nudge him into a fulltime conducting career...
...bronzed, broad-shouldered man from Latrobe, Pa, has been curling his fingers around golf clubs ever since he was seven, when his golf-pro father taught him the correct grip. By 13, he had entered his first tournament. At Wake Forest College he was No. 1 on the golf team. In 1954, he got married, and won the National Amateur, but passed up a honeymoon in Europe in order to turn pro and start making money...