Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that instant. Passenger Lester Peterson, seated beside Van Keuren, grabbed for the control wheel and yanked back. The aircraft rose again-after plunging to within three feet of the ground. It climbed to 8,000 ft. But the passengers-Peterson, Lester Laun, 34, and John Pawlack, 32-were still in a fearful situation. All three were engineers with the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel, on an inspection trip of the missile site, which their company is building. And none had ever flown a plane...
...maintaining the medium-range missile sites they had previously constructed in Cuba. This gives rise to the very real possibility that Russia hopes to return the heavy missiles to the island -or, even more ominous, that they may have left missiles on the island and need only to wheel them out of caves...
...public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry U.C.L.A. senior named Yang Chuan-kwang thundered 120 ft. down a runway and slammed his pole into the take-off well. Boing! Wheel...
...putting in reading lamps over adjustable bunks in sleeper cabs. White's Autocar division recently put in a seat with 16 different adjustments that give the driver a choice of 3,450 different positions. One of Ford's finicky customers insisted on a pure white steering wheel to encourage his drivers to keep their hands clean...
...Karts & 10? Parts. Offered the wheel of a blood-red factory Ferrari in 1958, Gurney came within an ace of victory at Le Mans and again at Rheims; both times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race...