Word: carrier
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MOLLY IVINS is a writer who normally creates heat, as any politician she's scorched can tell you. But Ivins, whose column in the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram is widely syndicated, found someone to admire in Willis Carrier, the father of air conditioning. Ivins, after all, lives in the Sunbelt--and Carrier's engineering achievement has helped make it much more livable...
Would you like to write about Willis H. Carrier...
...what a splendid fellow he was too, in addition to being such a benefactor to mankind (unless you want to hold all the Yankees who have moved to the South against him). A perfectly Horatio Alger kind of guy was Willis Carrier, struggling against odds, persisting, overcoming. Slapped down by the Great Depression, he fought back again to build an enormous concern that to this good day is the world's leading maker of air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems...
...book Air Warriors, published in June, follows the two-year training course of would-be Navy pilots. In researching the book, Waller flew with aviators now stationed in the Persian Gulf. "I can imagine how their hearts are racing," says Waller, our State Department correspondent. "Catapulting off a carrier and landing on it are almost as dangerous as combat." Waller's previous book, Commandos, was based on his reporting on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the resulting Gulf War, which gave him an especially informed perspective as he covered last week's showdown with Saddam Hussein...
...Saar and Don Moser of LIFE magazine, Jonathan Schell of the New Yorker, Ward Just of the Washington Post, Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times and scores of others--that is most moving, both for the horror seen and the risks taken. Tom Wolfe's reconstruction of a carrier-based bombing run over North Vietnam still makes one's palms sweat...