Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half an hour the formation held tight for the clicking shutters. Then, in an unobserved second, Walker's Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone...
...spelled the end of a daredevil career that reached its climax with the 1963 X-15 record altitude flight in which he touched the skirts of space, buttressed the theory (now under investigation by NASA) that man may be able to leave and return to the atmosphere in fixed-wing craft...
...Saigon, bespectacled Thich Tarn Chau, leader of the moderate wing of the Unified Buddhist Church, opened the week by calling for passive resistance instead of rioting. Then, as if to convince the U.S. that his campaign was directed not at the war effort but only against the oppressions of Ky (himself a Buddhist), Tarn Chau issued a hawkish manifesto opposing any peace conference as a "surrender to the Viet Cong." He also paid a surprise visit to American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Brandt who stood before the cheering delegates at the Dortmund convention. Gone was the dynamic but phony "Kennedy pose" that his public relations advisers had forced on him for last autumn's campaign. He demonstrated his new command of the party by decisively whipping a small, vociferous left-wing faction into line, then easily and naturally expounded his policy designed to lead to a unified Germany. He has always believed in kleine Schritte-small steps-toward that end, and the exchange of speakers with the Communists neatly fitted the pattern of limited contacts intended to break...
...clipper ships embarked, coolies came to build the transcontinental railroad, and the largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the international Olympic committee and millionaire builder as well, last week opened a new wing containing his collection of Oriental art, which doubles the size of the M. H. de Young Museum...