Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pilot Leo Burr Clark, an Air Force lieutenant from Charleston, S.C., banked steeply to the left, thus saving many paratroopers ahead. As bodies banged against the plane-one smashed into a propeller, one was almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
...Gerhardus Strydom (who recently changed the spelling of his name to Strijdom because it is "more Boerlike"), and pipe-puffing Theophilus Dönges, Minister of the Interior. Strijdom (pronounced Stray-dom) is a fanatic apostle of racial segregation, who represents the extreme anti-British, anti-Negro and anti-Jewish wing of the party. He put up a hand-picked candidate for the Cape Province job. Dönges, who has the support of the Broederbond (a secret society dominated by Dutch Reformed Church ministers), went after the job in person. Last week, at the Port Elizabeth congress, both men vied...
...sketchy description of the Douglas X-3 research plane first taken into the air by Test Pilot Bridgeman, who considered it a "nasty little beast" (TIME, April 27). Actually, the X-3 is heavier and slightly longer (66 ft. 9 in.) than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold the two jet engines...
...Crimson halfback is also a wing on the hockey team and catches for the varsity baseball squad...
...difficulty of working in the same backfield with Clasby, had slowed down Lowenstein this year and had prevented him from throwing touchdown passes more than any defensive backfield could have. Lowenstein was a one platoon player in a two platoon game, a T formation passer in a single wing backfield, yet he was always an offensive threat and a credit to Harvard football.CRIMSONStephen S. ShohetBOB COWLES hauls down a pass during the indecisive first period of Saturday's game, which Harvard eventually...