Jul 5 1962
From The Space Library
H-43B Huskie helicopter piloted by Capt. Chester R. Radcliffe, Jr. (USAF), set world's distance record in a 900-mi. flight. from Hill AFB, near Salt Lake City, to Springfield, Minnesota. Previous world's record of 761.027 miles had been set by U.S.S.R. helicopter in September 1960.
Poet Robert Frost, in speech to the students of Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont, said: "I've been thinking in a scientific way lately. Someone in Washington wants me to do something about glorifying America—something about the space age.
"The glory of it is that we're making Promethean defiance against the unknowable—space. That's glorious—and that's as far as I go.
"I don't know what will come of it. Maybe better communications between the stock markets of the world."
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