Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Earlier Z-grams had knocked out restrictions against men wearing civilian clothes on a base when off duty, opened a pilot program to allow first-class petty officers to carry any kind of clothes they wish aboard certain ships and to wear them when on liberty. The rule requiring dress uniforms when a ship arrives in port (when greasy gear and dirty lines must be handled) was eliminated. At least half the crew of a returning ship must be granted 30 days leave, and even when at sea, at least 5% of. a ship's crew must be allowed...
...KENNEDY: "I joked with [President John F. Kennedy] that we had cast the deciding ballot in his election to the presidency over that son-of-a-bitch Richard Nixon. I explained that by waiting to release the U-2 Pilot [Francis] Gary Powers until after the American election, we kept Nixon from being able to claim that he could deal with the Russians; our ploy made a difference of at least half a million votes...
This probably is the way it ought to be. I can hold little hope for any attempt for true full-time neighborhood control over programs to serve the neighborhood. These are working class people who have neither the time, the inclination, nor the training to pilot a comprehensive program of day care or job training or youth counseling toward a desired abstract goal. Furthermore, it is always risky to turn the public purse over to a small group, telling them to help themselves...
...time this summer. Patty's sister Yvonne is 14; she has a bullet necklace too, and a jacket with all her National Rifle Association marksmanship patches on it. Yvonne is fat, homely, and in a junior high school way, very feminine. She wants to be the first woman fighter-pilot in Vietnam, and after that, to be a General. Yvonne can hit forty-seven out of fifty bulls-eyes from fifty feet with her 22. She talks about running away from home if her boyfriend Peter (who's only 13, but who can hit forty- nine out of fifty bulls...
...massed just inside North Viet Nam near the Laotian border. Early last week a lone U.S. F-105 fighter-bomber attacked an antiaircraft-missile base in North Viet Nam. To justify the pre-emptive strike, the Pentagon came up with still another coinage in the air-war vocabulary: the pilot had exercised "the inherent right of self-defense," even though he had not been fired upon...