Word: cats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Flying Tigers' boss, General Claire Chennault, domesticated some war-weary military transports and U.S. fighter pilots following World War II, hardly anyone expected the ragtag operation to last for long. In fact, his CAT (for Civil Air Transport) blossomed into one of the best-run airlines in all of Asia, flying out of Taipei around the Communist perimeter from Seoul to Bangkok. But now, CAT's string seems to have...
Last week CAT announced that it was suspending all international passenger flights after the airline's only jet, a leased Boeing 727, nosed into a tea plantation near Taipei, killing 21 of the 63 persons aboard (among the survivors: CAT's Chief Pilot Stuart E. Dew, 46, who served as General George Marshall's personal pilot during his China mission in 1946). Though the suspension was said to be temporary, everyone's best guess was that it probably meant CAT's death...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...
...these efforts, the best performances still come from the audience. During one recent from the audience. During one recent film in which the screen goes black and a passionate panting can be heard, a colored kid in the first row cut loose with an enviable imitation of a cat in heat that made even the usher laugh...
...commercial area, Hittleman also pushes a complete line of yoga books, recordings and organic cosmetics. During the "journey into second youth," the lovely Diane demonstrates such exercises as the Ferocious Lion, in which she stretches forward like a cat, stares wild-eyed, and sticks out her tongue as far as it will go. As she does, Hittleman points at the camera and says: "I see that some of you are still afraid and shy; afraid that someone will see you and laugh. But you will have the last laugh...