Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing the hard hat and leather belt of a lineman, Wyoming's Republican Senator Frank A. Barrett stepped up to a control panel in Casper, Wyo. last week. There he threw a switch inaugurating the biggest power transmission project in the history of his state, a 251-mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which...
Delaware's John J. Williams, Idaho's Henry C. Dworshak, Indiana's William E. Jenner, Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, Nevada's George W. Malone, North Dakota's Milton R. Young, Ohio's John W. Bricker, and Wyoming's Frank A. Barrett. Paired against the bill: Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater, Nebraska's Roman L. Hruska, North Dakota's William Langer...
Chosen for the job: sturdy, blue-eyed Major Joseph E. Barrett, 33, a tough but affable World War II veteran from Rule, Texas. Flying B-175, Pilot Barrett was shot down over Schweinfurt, Germany, spent 19 months in a German prison camp. In 1947 he transferred to helicopters, logged 250 combat hours in Korea, won a Silver Star for flying a shell-chopped chopper 70 miles behind enemy lines to retrieve a wounded fighter pilot...
Secret Service Following. As Ike's pilot, Barrett will be called on for no such derring-do. But if troubles arise, he has been thoroughly schooled. Since his selection, Barrett has flown the H-47J 75 hours, has crisscrossed Washington pinpointing emergency landing sites, e.g., the Jefferson Memorial lawn...
Completing his first White House landing last week, Barrett lifted again, headed off to National Airport for more practice. Next month man and machine will return to the White House for the "Operation Alert" civil-defense drill. This flight will be the payoff: the first U.S. President to ride a helicopter will climb aboard to be whisked away from simulated danger- accompanied by a second copter carrying two Secret Servicemen...