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Word: pilote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Replied TWA Pilot David Wollan: "Roger. Acknowledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Air | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Again the TWA pilot, unable himself to see or be seen in the bad weather, acknowledged the call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Air | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...U.A.L. DC-8, directed to circle at Preston, would, when cleared, have normally flown eastward toward Idlewild's ILS glide path. U.A.L. Pilot R. H. Sawyer acknowledged and confirmed his instructions from Air Traffic Control to circle Preston, and his acknowledgment was the last contact Idlewild ever got. Since the planes collided in a spot on the Connie's path-a good ten miles or so north of the jet's allotted position-it seemed likely that the jet had somehow flown beyond its orbiting area into the La Guardia approach. Why Pilot Sawyer did so-whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Air | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...proved that the cultural commissars Lad a supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prokofiev's Last | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 45, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was named president of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., a subsidiary of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp. A World War II fighter pilot (his bag: 15 Japanese aircraft, including one bearing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto), Lanphier joined Convair in 1954, became key man in long-range planning for Convair's Atlas missile program. But his blunt criticism of the Administration's defense effort and sharp attacks on rival missilemakers provoked General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace to ease him out. On his own, Lanphier stumped the country, pleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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