Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mickey Wright, 29: the Waldemar Open, her sixth victory in eleven tournaments; at Brookville, L.I. Tied for the lead after 36 holes. Mickey fired a last-round 71, two under par, collected $1,350 (bringing her season's winnings to $13,130) and talked wistfully about joining the men's pro tour. "I could wear a hood or some disguise so they wouldn't recognize me," she said. > Dan Gurney, 33: the Grand Prix de France, averaging 108.7 m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen...
...TILT ENGINES: Other aircraft designers prefer to keep their wings fixed and to swivel only the engine or the engine exhaust. The Curtis-Wright X-19 has four tillable engines on the tips of two stubby wings. The Bell X-22A has four tiltable propellers in circular ducts. Neither plane has yet completed successful tests, but two years ago the British were already flying the Hawker Siddeley P-1127, which has a single jet engine with 13,500 lbs. of thrust. During takeoff, the engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane...
...generation ago, when it was really avantgarde, Frank Lloyd Wright built the famous Johnson home office in Racine-a windowless, block-long building, framed on the outside by 43 miles of glass tubing; on the inside columns taper from the ceiling like giant golf tees. Wright's aim was to create "as inspiring a place to work in as any cathedral ever was to worship in." He might have had something there. The paternalistic, nonunion company has never suffered a strike, never laid off a worker. Even during the Depression it kept everybody working, though some men did nothing...
...CHARLEYE WRIGHT Waco, Texas...
...AUDREY WRIGHT Omaha...