Archive for November 9th, 2011

REMEMBERING MARY TRAVERS

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Peter, Paul and Mary

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Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009)

Mary was a singer/songwriter and-member of the popular folk music group
Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel (Paul) Stookey
(shown above). They were one of the most successful singing groups of
the 1960s.

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A FLYING FIRST ON THIS DAY IN 1961

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Major Robert White flew his X-15 rocket plane (above) at a world record speed
of 4,093 mph. The flight made him the first pilot to fly a winged craft at six times
the speed of sound (Mach 6). President John F. Kennedy used the occasion to
confer the most prestigious award in American aviation, the Robert J. Collier
Trophy, jointly to White and three of his fellow X-15 pilots; NASA’s Joseph
Walker, CDR Forrest S. Peterson of the United States Navy, and North
American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield.

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The Robert J. Collier Trophy, considered to be the “Oscar” of
space achievement.

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