Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last winter. It was provoked when it learned that Air Force commanders (dressed in Bermuda shorts that the Air Force is introducing as its summer uniform) had staged a remarkable public-relations session in Puerto Rico. Among those on hand was Brigadier General Robert Lee (God Is My Co-Pilot) Scott, fired with zeal in his new job as information director for the Air Force. Scott had prepared a slambang, let-out-all-stops press campaign, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Air Command and aimed at proving to the U.S. public once and for all that, with...
...tying a horse under the wing. "Bees," he wrote, "don't like the smell of horses, but wrap him carefully so he won't get stung." A local housewife urged the airline to give the bees a good whiff of bruised lemontree leaves. C.A.A.'s chief pilot decided on more drastic action. Taking his place at the controls, he flew skyward to 17,000 ft., bumped, banked and looped-but when he got down again, the busy bees were still happily humming in the wing...
Increasingly, Catholic papers try to keep their readers straight on what is official and what is not. The Boston Pilot, founded in 1829, the country's oldest Catholic paper, carries an official slug over such material as pastoral letters and directives from the archbishop. At the head of its editorial page, the Indiana Catholic and Record runs a line frequently heard in Catholic journalism: "The opinions expressed [here] represent a Catholic point of view-not necessarily THE Catholic point of view...
...beginning of this month, the X-13 had not taken off or landed vertically. It has taken off many times, however, in the old-fashioned way, and Test Pilot Pete Girard is feeling out, at safe altitudes, its ability to hover nose up and to rise and descend vertically...
Under New Management. Born in upstate New York, Shield graduated from Rutgers ('17), and after service as a test pilot during World War I, landed a job with A. & P. as an accounting clerk and rose to general auditor in four years. In 1924 J. Spencer Weed, a onetime A. & P. vice president, hired him away to be contrailer of the venerable, 500-store Jones Brothers Tea Co. Four years later, after Weed and Shield had put Jones Brothers in the black, they regrouped it with several smaller chains into Grand Union Co. But over the years, Weed...