Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garden City, Kans. his arrival was heralded by a welcome but blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching on the ground...
...There Be No Moaning. In Penobscot Bay, Me., Harbor Pilot George Jennings steered the freighter Indochinois into open water, couldn't return to shore because of rough seas, moodily faced a round trip to France...
Princeton coach Dick Vaughan has yet to pilot his team to a win this year. The Tiger Alumni team illustrated the present dearth of talent by winning its first game from the varsity since...
...French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could not get close enough to drop his supplies. The expedition made another try by helicopter. It was impossible to land the big machine, but the guide dropped his rescue packages to the boys along with a note telling them how to reach a safer spot. As the helicopter hovered...
...behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare not try to land near the two boys who still lay, possibly still alive, abandoned in the wreck of the first helicopter. "I have decided," the air-force chief of rescue operations announced at last, "to cease operations. I cannot take the responsibility of risking more...