Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Brigadier General Frank Purdy Lahm, 85, one of the U.S. Army's earliest birdmen, a West Pointer who took lessons from Wilbur Wright and in 1909 soloed the Army's first plane, went on to train many top airmen as first commander of the Air Corps' pioneer flying school at Randolph Field, Texas-over which his ashes will be scattered from a plane; of a stroke; in Sandusky, Ohio...
...JAMES N. WRIGHT Brasilia, Brazil Cool & Brassy...
...daughter of a San Diego attorney, Mickey Wright began batting balls around a driving range at nine, played her first real round of golf at eleven. Within a year she was breaking 100. "The kids at school called me 'Moose,' " she says. "I had a terrible inferiority complex. I needed something to show my prowess. Golf was it." Mickey stopped feeling inferior at 15, when she shot a 70 in a San Diego tournament. In 1954 her father staked her to a summer on the pro tour-as an amateur. Mickey was low amateur at the Tarn...
That Tournament Trail. Today, blonde, blue-eyed Mickey Wright is the woman to beat in every tournament she plays. "It's a case of if I win, well, I was supposed to. If I don't, it's 'What's the matter with Mickey Wright?' " A determined career girl with few thoughts of marriage, she logs 35,000 miles a year in an air-conditioned Oldsmobile Starfire (supplied free by General Motors) that is practically a closet on wheels. Her traveling wardrobe: seven cocktail dresses, 20 blouses, 30 pairs of Bermuda shorts, 20 sweaters...
...astronauts will take a test "trip," without ever leaving the ground, in an Apollo simulator built by General Precision's Link Division of Binghamton, N.Y. Link's business is make-believe, and the company has performed it so well that it has moved ahead of competing Curtiss-Wright to become the world's largest builder of simulators that unerringly reproduce the sights, sounds and problems of everything from jets to space capsules...