Word: crews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the President of the U.S. is airborne on his 19-day, 22,370-mile trip, he will be outranked by his Air Force aide and aircraft commander, Colonel William Draper. And every one of those hours will symbolize days of work by Pilot Bill Draper, 39, and his crew in coping with the logistics involved in taking the President to the far side of the world and back...
...personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three stewards (who always check with Draper to make sure that the plane is not headed for turbulent weather before they serve the President his meals...
Weather in the Mountain. Last month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
Seizing on Buie as a good omen, Knox's crew last week invited him to join their ship. He was, after all, the luckiest swab-by in Uncle Sam's Navy...
Lawrence rows on the varsity crew, and is a member of the Crimson Key Society and the Quincy House Committee...