Navy ends search for survivors of Pacific radar plane crash
The Navy abandoned the two night and two day hunt 25 miles north of Oahu for survivors of the four engine WW2 radar packed Constellation that crashed during a training flight. Officials said only one enlisted man and Cmdr. Guy Howard were rescued with 17 presumed dead, as bodies were recovered and a mystery of the loss remained.
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Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Oahu Island
Air Force
Coast Guard
Pakace
Cmdr
Guy Howard
Oakland
Calif
1957 Tops Ten News Stories From North Carolina
A recap of 1957 highlights includes Wake Forest campus debates on on campus dances, the Baptist State Convention vote against campus dancing, student demonstrations, and faculty backing. The State Legislature cut corporate income tax rates to spur industry, plus a liquor lobby controversy and alcohol control enforcement. Notable incidents include Flat Rock School fire injuries, a fatal shooting involving Beaufort County figures, and a major New York Mercedes publicity event.
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Luther Hodges
Gerald C. Primm
Raleigh Baptist
Raleigh News & Observer
State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Frank Sims
Mecklenburg Abc
Fred Kelly
Raleigh
Flat Rock
Surry County
Beaufort County
J.C. Grimes Jr
Haywood Paul
Grimes
Paul
North Carolina
New York City
What Makes ICBMs Tick by Logan Reavis
Cutaway drawing by space artist Logan Reavis explains an American intercontinental ballistic missile. Labels identify major components of the three stages while noting speeds up to 18 000 miles per hour and navigation to targets as far as 5 000 miles away.
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Logan Reavis
Thieves scale obstacles for Colfax Packing loot
Pawtucket Rhode Island police said burglars at Colfax Packing Co. faced a fence, a boiler room window, a metal duct, a 14 inch opening and finally pried an iron plate from the top of the safe before cutting through eight inches of concrete or wall in the effort to steal valuables.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Colfax Packing Co
Beginning use of green eyeglass lenses in England 1561
The record notes that green lenses were employed in eyeglasses for the first time in England in the year 1561. This marks an early development in vision aids and optics within the realm.
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England
Scientists Duplicate Principles Of Universe In Ballistic Missile
Scientists reveal an inertial guidance system using a sapphire bearing gyroscope to steer missiles. Dr. Charles S. Draper and Dr. Walter Wrigley led work begun in 1939 with Sperry and the U.S. Navy, while AVCO Labs refine the shock tube to simulate nose cone reentry conditions for Titan and other missiles.
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Massachusetts Institute of Tecadieny
Charles S. Draper
Walter Wrigley
Sperry
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Avco Manufacturing Corp
Everett
Mass
AVCO
Air Force
Martin Co
Baltimore
Massachusetts
Arthur Krantrowitz
Kantrowitz
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