Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After wartime service as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot (four allied planes bagged and two Iron Crosses), he worked as a superintendent in a small steel mill. He was elected in 1953 to the Bundestag and served for five years (1961-66) as West Germany's Minister for Economic Cooperation, a post that gave him a solid grounding in international affairs. Two years ago, Scheel won control from the conservative faction of the Free Democrats and engineered a radical shift in party policy-from right of the Christian Democrats to left of the Socialists on a number of issues...
...chesty Canadian girl named Vixen ("my friends call my Vix"; everyone's her friend after a minute or two) lives in the woody wild land with her bush pilot husband. Vix has lots of those healthy hormonal impulses, and she likes to work them out with her husband. Wholesome family life, right? But there's a sad catch: her husband's piloting business takes him away from the cabin and leaves Vixen alone. Clever Vixen finds other diversions, and the film follows her as she bounds in and out of beds and meadows with a strange assortment of friends...
...tried to catch up on his work and read the hundreds of letters he has received since President Nixon first submitted his nomination. He returns home each day to lunch with his wife, who calls herself his "home secretary," and to tend his camellias. Haynsworth has let his private-pilot's license lapse for want of time to pursue that hobby. His hunting days are over because of legal hazards. "The hunting laws became so strict," he says, "that I finally decided I was taking a chance of breaking some laws any time I went hunting." Without a trace...
...pattern of disaster was all too familiar. An F-104G Starfighter, bearing the black formee cross of West Germany's Luftwaffe on its fuselage, was hurtling over the South German foothills toward the Alps last week when it spun out of control. The pilot managed to eject at about 1,000 ft. and landed unhurt in a tree, but his plane plummeted into the black Bavarian soil south of Augsburg. It was the 100th Luftwaffe Starfighter to crash since the Bundeswehr adopted the hot but unforgiving aircraft...
Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology and chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday. "The plan shouldn't be called an experiment-it should be called a pilot project." Kagan said he felt the trial exchanges would probably be successful because they would involve the most enthusiastic students...