Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mach 2.36, which is close to the F-104C's maximum permissible speed at that altitude. Then he nosed up at an ideal 47°. At 40,000 ft. he dumped his cabin pressure, and his pressure suit inflated. His afterburner went out at 75,000 ft. He shut off his air-starved engine at 95,000 ft. The ship coasted up without power and porpoised over at 103,395 ft., beating the Russian record (94,658 ft.) by more than the 3% required by the F.A.I, to certify a new record...
...Window. Patty's preparation was almost as painstaking as Anne's. Her agent and his wife taught her what it means to be blind by making her navigate with eyes shut around obstacles set up in their apartment; they made her practice deafness by teaching her to ignore telephone bells, suddenly clashed pot covers, unexpectedly fired questions. Conditioned reflexes to sight and sound came under control. The cast still remembers with amazement the night at Manhattan's Playhouse theater when a cable snapped with a loud crack high over the stage. Anne and the spaniel that plays...
...other Crimson players--Captain Gerry Emmet, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Jorge Lemann, Peter Smith, Doug Poole, Alden Briggs, and Ed Vaughan--all won their matches by shut-outs, as did alternate Dick Chute. Tim Gallwey, usually the varsity's second man, was unable to make the trip but will play against Navy Saturday...
...operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing 40,000 cars a week, by about Dec. 16. The 13 Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will recall 38,000 laid-off production workers. Ford Motor Co. is confident that it will be able to get by without a major stoppage...
...Crimson racquetmen shut out their opponents 3 to 0, and only one match was carried to five games. But in that contest, captain Gerry Emmet first won two games and then led the Army top man 14 to 9 in the third, when suddenly the ball broke...