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...bright morning sky over Nevada last week, a swept-wing F-100F Super Sabre jet fighter-bomber on a training mission maneuvered through a series of turns. In the rear cockpit sat Lieut. Gerald Moran. 24. His vision was blocked by a cockpit hood; his only contacts with the outside were his radio and his instruments. In the front seat sat his instructor, Captain Thomas Coryell, 29, charged with keeping an alert for other aircraft while his student practiced. At 8:28. Pilot Moran called the control tower at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas to report that...
While stumping his home state of California, sniffing the gubernatorial air, and "reporting to the people" about Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects...