Word: flyering
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...Thailand. Two decades after he ended his rampaging career as fullback on Army's undefeated teams of 1944-46, three times making All-America, the Doc still ranks as West Point's greatest power runner. But he has also built himself a reputation as an equally skilled flyer on tours of duty in Alaska and England...
Died. Thomas A. Morgan, 80, longtime head of Sperry Corp.; of a heart attack; in Henderson, N.C. Though he was not a flyer, in the early 1930s Morgan was president of North American Aviation and Curtiss-Wright, as well as Sperry Gyroscope; in 1933 he concentrated on Sperry, diversified into missiles and hay balers, and boosted annual sales from $3,000,000 to $240 million by retirement...
...crop. But none of those dangers can hold a Band-Aid to the ones experienced routinely by the madmen of sporting masochism: racing pilots. Whipping airplanes around pylons mere yards above the deck is a sport so risky that it all but disappeared from the U.S. scene after famed Flyer Bill Odom crashed to his death in 1949. Since 1964 it has come roaring back...
However soon the Russians can get the planes ready, Gowon has yet to find the pilots to fly them. All last week Lagos was alive with rumors that foreign mercenaries were on the way-Egyptians, Algerians, Swedes, Finns-the nationalities seemed endless. But the only flyer who actually showed up was the 69-year-old "Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, who hinted that he could supply a squad of Negro-American pilots...
Most "original" musicals are cribbed from something else these days, but one exception this year is How Now, Dow Jones, a Wall Street flyer by Max Shu!man with tunes by Hollywood's Elmer Bernstein. There will also be slices of several lives: George M., with Cohan's own songs and Joel Grey (Cabaret) in the title role; Dumas and Son, with score based on themes by Saint-Saĕns; and Fagade, starring Vienna's Marisa Mell as Mata Hari and staged by Vincente Minnelli...