Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of Briare's 5,140 people, the referendum seems awfully remote. Hardly anyone except Mayor Henri Dabard, a brisk ex-World War I fighter pilot, talks about it in terms of regionalization or senate reform. Instead, Briare will be voting oui or non on De Gaulle, just as it has in the previous four referendums the general has staged since...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). UMC (University Medical Center), a pilot-movie harbinger of the autumn's scheduled epidemic of doctor series, stars James Daly, Maurice Evans, Richard Brad ford, Kevin McCarthy, Kim Stanley and Edward G. Robinson...
...week ended, the Boston contingent was busiest of all. "When the Harvard story broke," reported Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, "I was on assignment in London. Getting home was a mishap on the way to disaster." The engine on Scott's VC 10 cut out, and the pilot had to jettison fuel for 25 minutes before returning to Heathrow airport to trade planes. "After that," says Scott, "my Volkswagen expired ignominiously on the Massachusetts Turnpike, and I showed up for work in the cab of a tow truck...
Better safety devices are being tested. One is a radio transmitter and a device that sets off an alarm when two planes are on collision course. It instructs one pilot to fly up, the other down. To relieve overburdened controllers, the FAA has begun to install computerized radar control systems at a few airports; these automatically print out aircraft identification, altitude and speed...
Williams is also a virtuoso of more sublime happenings. There was the time he and a camera crew drove into the Mojave Desert just before dawn. As the sun rose over the horizon, a skywriting pilot named V. E. Noble received a radio signal and began tracing a stem, leaves and petals to form history's largest "sunflower." But the fierce glare frustrated attempts to record the $5,000 gambol on film. Explains Williams, eyes aglow: "The idea wasn't to see it, really. The idea was for people to hear about...