Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football diarist from the Pittsburgh Steelers who wrote to ask for the Kramer treatment was rejected out of hand because he misspelled Pittsburgh. Diaries of Hockey Player Derek Sanderson, Basketballer Dave DeBusschere, Concert Violinist Erick Friedman, a Long Island rabbi, a Marine captain in Viet Nam, an airline pilot and a single career girl are coming along nicely...
...pollution is not the only health hazard in the skies. The nation's overcrowded airways, already clogged by 2,600 commercial and 120,000 private aircraft, pose a more direct threat to life. Last week a single-engine Piper Cherokee, piloted by a plumber on a solo training flight, lopped off the tail section of an Allegheny Airlines DC-9 as the jetliner headed for a landing at Indianapolis' Weir Cook Airport. Eighty-three persons were killed, including the pilot of the private plane. It was the 19th time this year that two planes have collided...
...among the prisoners was Lieut. Commander John S. McCain III, son of the American commander in the Pacific. Despite "many broken bones," Frishman said, McCain "has been in solitary confinement since April of 1968." Frishman denounced the mistreatment of another fellow prisoner, Lieut. Commander Richard A. Stratton, a Navy pilot who "was beaten, had his fingernails removed and was put in solitary." His arms were scarred from cigarette burns. Before Frishman left Hanoi, Stratton told him not to worry about telling the truth. "He said that if he gets tortured some more, at least he'll know...
Died. Zaddie Bunker, 81, known as "the flying great-grandmother," who went buzzing off into the wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could...
...cost-cutting expedient; it is obviously wasteful to keep costly educational facilities idle for a quarter of each year. Moreover, if a school system operates twelve months instead of nine, it can provide nine months of education per year for one-third again as many students. But pilot studies have demonstrated no appreciable economies and have shown that there is opposition to compulsory attendance during the summer quarter. Atlanta, by encouraging voluntary summer participation to broaden the learning process rather than merely to increase efficiency, may have found a way to do both...