Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"Can you see many runway lights?" asked the tower. "I can see three," came the answer. The tower operator reminded Chesher that the lights were 300 ft. apart: Chesher could see less than 1,000 ft. down a runway that had a 4,000-ft. take-off minimum.* Nevertheless, the...
It was small comfort to San Luis Obispo that the FAA belatedly grounded all Arctic-Pacific planes. Through the week, while its flags hung at half mast, the town was as glum as the cool, grey fog that rolled in from the Pacific. Cal Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an...
Fellow Bundestag Deputies thought of Socialist Alfred Frenzel, 61, as a dull fellow but a beaver for work. His diligent legislative spadework on any topic assigned him earned him a prized seat on the defense committee. There one of his proudest accomplishments was pushing through the adoption of a new...
Gaitskell was indeed battling for his political life. At the Labor Party conference at Scarborough last month, Gait-skell's foes had rammed through a resolution endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. Defiantly, Gaitskell, a determined supporter of NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or...
There was no longer any mention of the possibility that Algeria would choose union with France. To the open threats of some army officers that they will revolt if Algeria is lost, De Gaulle replied that he would call a popular referendum, if necessary, to put through his Algerian decision...