Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many top Air Force officers descended on Dayton's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that a bystander asked: "Who's back at the Pentagon running the shop?" Replied Air Force Chief of Staff General David Jones: "Even more would have come if they could have got away." The beribboned brass hats were there to honor the one man above all others who gave the U.S. Air Force its unchallenged technological superiority: Lockheed Aircraft's famed design chief, Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, perhaps the most successful aviation innovator since Orville and Wilbur Wright...
...Kyle Patterson...
...Kyle Patterson grew up on a Tuscarora Indian reservation near Niagara Falls, N.Y. But she has also been an exchange student in Brazil, has gone on a cross-country trip with her mother and her brother, and has lived in Germany with her parents...
...knew in high school that she would end up-going to a "semi-decent college," she says, because her mother, who is supervisor of Indian Affairs for New York State, had gone to Cornell. Many Indians on the reservation are critical of the state's treatment of Indians, and Patterson says she is in sort of a "precarious position" because of her mother's job. "But," she adds, "I think people are beginning to realize that she's not just a token for the state...
...Patterson looks Indian, with strong features and large almond-shaped eyes hidden behind thick black lashes that point down instead of up. But she has a sophistication and worldliness that you don't expect in someone from an Indian reservation...