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...Pilot Ronald H. Conway, 29, who survived the crash, failed three flight tests early in his career, although he later passed his multi-engine and transport-rating tests without a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: A Few Discrepancies | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...When the two engines went out, Pilot Conway asked the flight engineer to open an emergency valve that would have permitted an extra flow of fuel to both dead engines. But Copilot James Greenlee, who was killed in the crash, canceled the request and the valve stayed shut. Testified Conway: "I would much rather have seen that valve open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: A Few Discrepancies | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...when they salute an officer, get the reply: "Airborne!" One 82nd sergeant trained men while encased in a crotch-to-neck cast that protected three broken vertebrae. After a recent training jump, the 82nd marched 85 miles back to Fort Bragg. Major General Theodore J. Conway, division commander, jumped with his men and hiked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: This Is the Army | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, said that he would soon be able to liquidate his "barracks" as students are allowed to take rooms off-campus. He plans no further conversion of rooms, although he now has "about 10 people" over capacity. John M. Bullitt, Master at Quincy, likewise plans to forestall further conversion by encouraging some students to live off-campus...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Deans to Allow More Men to Live Off Campus to Ease Overcrowding | 9/26/1961 | See Source »

Once war was declared, Wirges waged it with unabating belligerence. After an election last June, in which a Conway County township, Catholic Point, voted 93-2 in favor of a machine candidate, Wirges took a census of township voters: the first 14 voters he talked to swore that they had voted against the machine. The Democrat's story went a long way toward proving hanky-panky at the polls-although the county government has yet to take any action. When Morrilton's city aldermen, ignoring two defeats on a new sewer tax referendum, enacted a special ordinance permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Varieties of Violence | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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