Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...energy crisis and warnings of limits give Americans a guilty fright; they know perfectly well that they have been squandering with an abstracted heedlessness, consuming on automatic pilot, like the jaws' dreamy working of a wad of gum. "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion," said the prophet Amos...
...right, his parents and his coach. She had lengthy sessions with Borg himself, including a round-trip plane ride between Paris and Rome. To travel in the orbit of a superstar, reports Phillips, "is to be envied. All the tennis fans on the plane-including the pilot -came around for autographs, and many of them looked at me as though their idea of dying and going to heaven was to sit and talk to Bjorn Borg for two hours." Inside the phlegmatic Swede, Phillips found, there is a bright, charming young man. "He's not wildly controversial or colorful...
...Tbilisi was announced. His airport bus proceeded to roll along the tarmac and stop at three different planes; at each one the ground hostess would yell out: "Is this the plane to Tbilisi?" The bus finally came to the fourth-and right-plane. There was only one problem: no pilot. The traveler finally abandoned the effort at 3 a.m., luggage unclaimed and Tbilisi unvisited...
...Koerner there is little evidence that this program of study improves teacher performance. Koerner calls for more intellectually demanding but more flexible requirements to make the field more attractive to talented people who lack specialized teaching credentials. A small step in this direction is a three-year-old pilot program run by the school board in Hanover, N.H. There, college graduates who want to teach are carefully screened for such qualities as imagination and love of children, as well as academic competency. After a year of probationary teaching, chosen candidates become certified teachers...
...balloon flight in May, the four-day voyage of 2,818 miles from Fort Baker, Calif., to Ste. Félicité, Quebec, set a world record for overland flight. Another, more esoteric record was achieved in April by Jerry Dietrick, 56, of Florence, Ky., who became the first pilot to fly solo from Cincinnati to London to Munich in a single-engine plane of the 3,850-lb. to 6,414-lb. class...