Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest distance that airborne troops had ever been flown to a parachute drop. A fleet of 44 C-141s and 33 smaller, slower propjet C-130 Hercules transports carried 2,500 men and 721 tons of supplies and equipment from the eastern U.S. to South Korea. Aside from the weather delay, there were few untoward hitches in the military exercise. One paratrooper's static line failed to release him, and he dangled behind the aircraft until he could cut himself loose with a knife. The 82nd's commander, Major General John Deane, parachuted smack into the middle...
Calm Waters. While taking their pictures from a 281-by-113-mile elliptical orbit, the astronauts could see whitecaps in the ocean site southwest of Bermuda that had been chosen for their landing. The weather in the recovery area was so bad, in fact, that controllers avoided mentioning it to the astronauts until McDivitt asked...
...Hula Bowl, a post-season game between two teams of graduating college all stars, drew a near-capacity crowd last January despite miserable weather. "The reason," says Charles Barnes, president of Sports Headliners, Inc., "was that the stands were packed with agents...
Efforts to erect the bubble were begun in December after a number of delays caused by the weather. The site was a football practice field at Baker Field. The bubble was quickly inflated but trouble came shortly. The anchors had not been securely buried, and several were pulled up by the wind...
...pulverizing year of newsbreaks (politics, assassinations, space shots) since he started reporting for his home-town Wilmington, N.C., Star-News in 1938. He booked himself into an Arizona dude ranch following a Tucson lecture. After only two days, he turned around disgustedly and flew home to New York: the weather was "lousy," and he couldn't stomach the group activities. Part of his difficulty, he adds, is that a career of deadlines (he also writes a 3½-minute NBC radio commentary weekdays) has left him compulsive about time. "It affects-you might even say, warps-your personality...