Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glow. In Washington, it was past 3 a.m. and the last U.S. plane had headed home. In the second-floor room in the White House where Lyndon Johnson sleeps, a bedside lamp glowed as the President talked in a low voice with the situation room in the West Wing basement. There, by instantaneous Teletype circuit to the Far East, military duty officers were checking in the returning jets...
Bigger Competitor. Lockheed's rival in the competition is Boeing Co., which has not won a major military plane or missile award since 1958. Boeing is betting on a swing-wing model whose wings tuck back at high speed and open out for landings. Called the Boeing SST 733, it could achieve the same speed and stratospheric altitude as Lockheed's 2000. Boeing is building a mockup, plans to display it around September. The plane has just undergone major modifications, making it heavier (300 tons v. Lockheed's 250 tons), longer...
...changes not only improved the plane's payload, but also cured defects in its design. Tests showed that exhaust from Boeing's wing-mounted engines would buffet and overheat the tail. Designers moved the engines to the underside of an enlarged tail. That, in turn, enabled them to increase the area of the pivoting wing so that the plane could take off and land more slowly and silently. With that, said Boeing SST Engineering Director H. W. Withington last week, "Lockheed no longer has us beaten, as it thought it did last year." Replied Lockheed President Daniel...
...success of the 4-3-3 as an offensive setup will depend largely on the ability of the wing halfbacks to work with the forwards and score goals from the flanks...
...Harvard has so many good players it could play mob soccer and win today; it won't be until the next two games, with Amherst and Williams, that an evaluation of the 4-3-3, and with it Harvard's chances in the Ivy League race, will be possible.Right Wing DUDLEY BLODGETT...