Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every pilot is familiar with ordinary turbulence, which is generally caused by thunderstorms or some other violent weather disturbance in the lower atmosphere. Pilots avoid the worst bumps by dodging the thick clouds in which vertical air currents hide. Radar helps by spotting the veils of rain or hail that mark the violent heart of a storm. But clear air turbulence is invisible both to human eyes and to any known kind of radar...
...Comanche droned in at 200 ft. over the coastal highway 70 miles east of Havana. One of Fidel Castro's army patrols, carrying a .50-cal. machine gun, opened fire, riddling the plane with bullets. The plane landed hastily just off the road, and out stepped two Florida pilot-adventurers: William Shergales, 34, and Howard Lewis ("Swede") Rundquist, 33, whose foot was gushing blood. Demanded Shergales: "Take me to Fidel Castro...
Southeastward at 18,000 ft. over southern Indiana one afternoon last week bored a Northwest Airlines propjet Lockheed Electra bearing passengers from snowy Minneapolis and Chicago to Miami. At about 3 o'clock, Pilot Ed Laparle, 57, checked on the radio with Indianapolis Control Center, signed off with an all's well. Fifteen minutes later, a farmer in the Ohio River town of Tell City, Ind. heard "popping sounds, like shotgun shells or a little louder." Looking up, he saw the Electra break in two pieces, the right wing looping off in one direction, the rest...
...Goheen, a Princeton man and recently discharged Army light colonel, who aimed at a State Department career. He became a classicist instead, and wound up after eleven years as president of Princeton. The 1946 Fellows were diverted just as neatly from other careers. Frank Wadsworth, a wartime test pilot who wanted to go on flying, is now a Shakespearean scholar at the University of California. And William M. Meredith, poet and English professor at Connecticut College, was won away from his prewar reporting job on the New York Times...
...Grant Moves South) Catton and Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., onetime managing editor of LIFE, are busily hatching plans to make their sort of publishing even more successful. Last fall they branched out into television as advisers on a special series of hour-long historical dramas, have helped produce the pilot film of a half-hour TV series on the Civil...