Word: petersen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raymond I. Petersen ar rived from Chicago and formed a flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...
...Alaskan bush pilot had to be resourceful as well as rugged. N.C.A. Veteran Jim Dodson remembers delivering babies on two separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
...Union. Dean Glimp has said "we would ask whether a student's illegal act [has any] relation to his responsibility here" before taking any action against him. His own feeling, he said, is that a student who resisted the draft would be reinstated in the College after jail. J. Petersen Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has made a similar statement. The CRIMSON applauds this tolerance, and we hope the University's future treatment of the Union and its supporters will remain consistent with these statements...
...move to silence Feintuch is complicated by the role allegedly played by J. Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...formed a family combo almost as soon as they could walk. The family migrated from Britain to Australia in 1958, where the brothers worked their way up the radio-TV talent-show circuit. By last February the brothers had made it to London, acquiring along the way Drummer Colin Petersen and Guitarist Vince Melouney, and a producer got them into recording studios and out into the world...