Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silvio Conte (R-Mass.), a vocal spokesman for the liberal wing of the GOP at the San Francisco convention, has offered to speak to the club...
...lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only a small minority resist the liberalizing impact of higher education by joining the Young Americans for Freedom and other student right wing cadres. But the former group of compassionate students may be showing how the universities can tie themselves, as some are beginning to do, to local school systems or distant beleaguered colleges, such as the relation that Brown University has set up with Tougaloo or the University of Wisconsin with three...
...Plane. On Nov. 1, Boeing will submit its revised proposals for a variable-sweep wing supersonic transport to the Federal Aviation Agency, which earlier gave Boeing's design a slight edge over Lockheed's. The company is making a strong bid to build the CX-HLS, a huge, heavy transport that is capable of putting down on unpaved strips in battle zones. Its commercial jetliners-the popular 707, the intermediate-range 720 and the new 727 tri-jet-are selling so well that the company expects to break its alltime commercial sales record of 139 jets...
...only have been conceived as a successor to the U2, the slow-speed (500 m.p.h.) reconnaissance plane that flew into so much trouble over Russia. But last week the A11 was publicly shown and flown. And the experts quickly reconsidered their judgment. From spearlike nose to flaring, double-delta wing, the A11 is all interceptor, all meanness and muscle...
...third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...