Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to 1936. At that time, Hughes was booked in a Los Angeles police station, where his fingerprints and signature were recorded after his car struck and killed a pedestrian (the charges were dropped). The present handwriting is also said to match Hughes' signatures on a 1938 pilot's log and a Government security clearance issued during World War II. In addition, it matches the longhand in a letter, written in 1970, directing that Robert Maheu be fired as head of the Hughes properties in Nevada. Says Paul A. Osborn of Osborn Associates: "The evidence that all of the writing...
When Army Air Force Captain Robert A. Lewis set off toward Hiroshima as copilot of the Enola Gay on Aug. 6, 1945, he began a brief log of the mission, scribbling on the backs of War Department forms. Last week the diary was auctioned off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries for $37,000 to a rare-manuscript dealer. In it, there was a glimpse, as in a time-lapse film, of the moment when men first used the Bomb against one another...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...
...doing something or you might get an F." Herndon's conclusion--he was making the mistake of expecting the kids to enjoy things which only he wanted them to enjoy, when, in fact, he had no interest in simulating the poverty of Haiti in his Alliance for Progress log. And if he didn't like the games he made up for his classes, his kids weren't likely to love them either...
...Since the end of World War II, air service to West Berlin has been the exclusive preserve of the occupying powers' designated airlines: Pan American, British European Airways and Air France. The run has been a particularly rich prize for Pan Am. The line's Boeing 727s log 96 flights a day in winter and 117 in summer-usually with more than two-thirds of their seats filled...