Word: captains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into problems. Pakistan's small educated elite, shut out from power, began to turn against him, criticizing his arrogance and intolerance as well as his reluctance to delegate authority. There were increasingly bitter allegations of corruption, centering on his eldest son Gohar Ayub, who had risen from army captain to millionaire in six years. Ayub's reaction to all complaints was to impose tighter curbs on the press and his opponents. His reputation took another dip with the near calamitous war with India. Ayub's propaganda organs claimed victory when even the simplest peasant could see that...
...more bullets stitched the aircraft's front fuselage, Pilot Trainee Yoram Peres doubled up with three bullets in his abdomen (he was later reported recovering). Copilot Moshe Heichel was hit in the hand. Over the plane's loudspeaker, passengers heard Captain Israel Ganot order, "Everybody down on the floor. Don't move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from...
...hear. Now Henry's boy is sitting in the saddle of his customized cycle-with its steeply raked front and ape hanger handlebars-ready to hit the road on it in his new film. "It's called Easy Rider," said Peter. "I play a character known as Captain America," who just races around cutting the roadways to ribbons experiencing "ultimate freedom...
...repairs. They descended to the 610-ft. level in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule (PTC) and were opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing, making a rapid motion," says Captain George Bond, Sealab's chief medical officer. "Any time you see rapid motion in a diver, you know he's in trouble." Cannon died before he could be brought to the surface...
...drivers last year earned more than $15,000, thanks to the Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what it is, the average driver will naturally expect even more, especially if he happens to live next door to, say, a senior airline captain. The pilot's $45,000 top annual pay will climb to $57,000 when the jumbo jets go into service later this year...