Word: pete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leader of the four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...
...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...
aviation today is a onetime fighter pi lot named Elwood Richard Quesada. As the first administrator of the new Federal Aviation Agency, "Pete" Quesada has the tough task of ensuring the safety of the na tion's 93,900 aircraft and millions of passengers as the U.S. slams into the jet age with the speed- and potential hazard-of a .45-cal. bullet. Last week, after buzzing Senators for weeks, Pete Quesada won a major victory. The Sen ate restored $48.8 million of the $76 million cut by the House from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget...
...Pete Quesada got into aviation in 1924, when he left Georgetown University to join the Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
Peter Gunn (NBC. 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete, who covers more ground than an antelope, here finds himself involved in political blackmail: with Craig Stevens as the intrepid hero...