Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four services-Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force-are flying thin. Though there are pilots enough to fill every cockpit in Southeast Asia, the same cannot be said throughout the rest of the world. Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene last month told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that his service is now 851 aviators short and by 1968 will be 1,021 pilots in the hole; Chief of Naval Operations David McDonald admits to "urgent pilot needs"; Air Force Chief of Staff J. P. McConnell worries about the "down ward trend" in pilot retention. The Army, whose 3,800 helicopter...
This week Powell faced another test, an election in New York's 18th Congressional District to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion. There was no doubt that Powell would win at the polls, but his victory could well be meaningless, since the House has already voted, 307 to 116, to bar him from the 90th Congress. There remains, however, the possibility that the House will relent. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the select committee that recommended that Powell be seated but penalized, predicts that the House will now admit the prodigal...
...notion that faculty members are anxious to take control of their institution. In all types of schools, those questioned indicated that they would like to decrease the time spent in administrative capacities. They would prefer a "quasi-democratic" institution in which they could be influential yet not actually fill administrative posts...
This year's American League raises the obstacles for rationally predicting a pennant finish to an annual high. Every team in the junior, and perenially weaker, loop, has so many holes to fill that of the five teams equally justified to finish second, none should be able to win. That is why the overwhelming consensus leans toward Baltimore: the Orioles won last year, so memory over-rides the rebellion of reason at the thought of their triumphing...
Wilson's designs are equally and intentionally psychedelic. Expanding like the mind to fill every conceivable bit of space, they are intended to capture the visual experiences of an LSD tripper when, as one hippie puts it, "you look at your hand, and it goes in all directions. Its outline is lost, but the colors are beautiful...