Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...takes time out from running a $1.7 billion corporation to pilot a soapbox racer? Robert Hansberger, 50, the president of Boise Cascade Corp., for one. At the wheel of his racer Tree, Hansberger swooped down the ramp past two middle-aged competitors to record his second straight triumph in the "Big Boys" division of the annual Treasure Valley Soapbox Derby in Boise, Idaho. For senior racers who may hope to emulate him, the timber industrialist has sage advice: "As in many things in life, maintain a low silhouette...
...soot out of the sky onto people's clothes. One downpour temporarily knocked out power lines in three boroughs and Westchester County, leaving nearly 10,000 families without electricity-and air conditioning. But most of the time, a dull, maddening haze obscured the sky. "It looked awful," said Pilot-Photographer Tony Linck, after he had helicoptered around Manhattan in midweek, on assignment for TIME. "It was like flying inside a yellow-gray cloud. We had to fly by compass at one point...
Here the story concerns a jet plane pilot-scientist (Rex Reason) who is enlisted by a group of Aliens from the planet Metalluna who are working on a top secret project in Georgia. Our hero receives a mysterious do-it-your-self machine in the mail and despite the warnings of his square colleague builds the contraption which goes by the name of "interossiter." Through the ill-fitting costumes and wooden exclamations, the significant theme of machines taking on a life of their own, as did Frankenstein, drives the creaky plot forward. To make a long story short, a mysterious...
...element of the program not mentioned in Ladd's inventory is U.S. combat assistance from the air. American pilots have been observed flying spotter planes over Communist positions and directing Cambodian artillery fire by radio. Plane crews that want to fire at enemy targets themselves must radio their home bases in South Viet Nam or Thailand for permission; it is regularly given. The pilots are not anxious to talk about their role. Recently a reporter visiting a group of Cambodian officers at their headquarters overheard an American pilot's radio transmissions and asked to talk...
Sick Subsidiary. The leadership of LTV has passed from financial entrepreneurs to a shirt-sleeved production man. Paul Thayer, 50, was named president, chairman and chief executive. A chain-smoking former chief test pilot for Chance Vought Corp. who came along when that company was acquired by Ling in 1961, Thayer helped design LTV's A-7A attack plane. He became president of LTV Aerospace in 1965. Under Thayer, sales climbed from $195 million to last year's $714 million; more important, profits increased from $3.6 million to $28.7 million. Zealously profit conscious, Thayer recently has been firing...