DATE: Tuesday, October 14, 1997             TAG: 9710140412

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: FOCUS

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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FOCUS: CHUCK YEAGER50 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE MAN WITH THE RIGHT STUFF CLIMBED INTO AN EXPERIMENTAL ROCKET PLANE AND THRUST AIR TRAVEL TOWARD NEW HORIZONS.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE

...Chuck Yeager and the X-1 rocket plane

ASSOCIATED PRESS/File photos

...Chuck Yeager...

Yeager, now 74...

COURTESY OF U.S. AIR FORCE

The X-1 was an experimental rocket...

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