Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family man with two teenagers to send through college, a Long Island Sunday-school teacher and a prisoner of fate, zealously determined "to get out of that damned Video suit." As a last hope, he has resorted to disguise. He has landed a role in a forthcoming TV pilot film in which he will clap on a talcumed wig and, with his identity concealed, impersonate George Washington. Says reluctant Spaceman Hodge: "What is good enough for the Father of Our Country is certainly good enough for Captain Video-blast...
Helicopter Altimeter. A microwave radar altimeter that can be attached to the automatic pilot of a helicopter and keep it hovering in one place indefinitely was announced by Sylvania Electric. Developed for use in Navy rescue and antisub operations, the device will also be available to commercial helicopters...
...Douglas Martin for the Charlotte News and wirephotoed around the world by the Associated Press. Last week it won top honors (out of 743 entries from 20 countries) in The Netherlands Newspaper Publisher Association's annual photo contest. For Photographer Martin, who now works on the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the honor was doubly welcome. Reason: the Charlotte News, which downplayed the integration story, never used his award-winning shot...
California: "I work eight hours a day managing a bookstore with a boss as nervous as a test pilot going to the moon, put up with demanding customers asking hundreds of asinine questions, and then go home at night to a neurotic husband trying to sell insurance. I've discovered 15 new gray hairs and a birthday is coming up. What else have I left except the consolation of a good book...
...shoestring, they knew so little about the business that they sent their cameraman to Manhattan to pick up pointers from live shows. Today even the janitors on his payroll of 2,500 still call him by his first name, but Desi is equally authoritative behind the cameras directing a pilot film or rattling off shrewd decisions in long-distance calls with network brass, sponsors and ad agencies...