Word: windings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...Pearl. The night now hung with bad weather: ceiling, 1,500 ft.; visibility, five miles; rain. Maxwell woke up, groggily plugged in his headset. He cut his speed to 200 knots to reduce the buffeting of the plane and the charge of the biting wind. "I think I said about 50 prayers. I thought about everything-the things I used to do when I was a kid, like playing ball, and my family. They were the ones I was really fighting...
...Small cars are just a phase," says Atlanta Medical Technician Jewell Mitchell, who drives a well-cared-for 1956 Cadillac. "They're not comfortable, and I'm afraid I'll wind up under somebody's front bumper. Why, the other day I saw a small foreign car with a sign saying: 'Don't run over me. I squash bugs...
Strategy & Strikes. The ill wind has blown some good for the automakers. In labor relations, they have fewer problems than they had expected this year. At the start of negotiations for a new contract last month, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers asked for a 35?-45?-an-hour wage package and tried a familiar whipsaw strategy to get it. The U.A.W. fired off contract termination notices to Ford and Chrysler but not to G.M., obviously hoped to force the two smaller companies to settle, then use the settlements to pressure G.M. into line. But when the industry formed...
...wind was quite shifty during the day, boosting the second freshman boat to the fastest time over the course while acting as a headwind against the varsity...