Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon's Cabinet are a staid lot who have generally similar tastes. They are not eight millionaires and a plumber, as Eisenhower's original choices were irreverently-but accurately-described. Though some are wealthy, most live unostentatiously. While one, Red Blount, is a qualified jet pilot, none of them is by any stretch a jet-setter. Their mode of living is mainly suburban middleclass, with strong emphasis on family life and informal entertaining at home. A possible exception to the pattern is New York Investment Banker Maurice Stans, the new Secretary of Commerce, who lives...
...billion in aid to other nations - a massive contribution, not withstanding the fact that it also served U.S. policy - and supplemented the official amounts by uncounted millions in private philanthropy. The Rockefeller Foundation contribution to medicine has had worldwide benefits; the Ford Foundation is now contributing millions to pilot projects that may offer solutions to some of the problems of the cities. There is in the American temperament an evangelical conscience, and it can be aroused...
...Bayonne Times on the newsstands for a penny, hawked them in bars and restaurants for two cents. He shined shoes, dug ditches, sold peanuts, labored on a construction gang. At 18, he toured New England with his own bingo game. After four years as a Marine fighter pilot in World War II, he got a degree in speech and drama from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., then moved to Philadelphia, where, among other things, he found a job as a circus clown. It was not long before he was one of Philadelphia's best-known TV personalities...
William White, 30 and black, goes to one of Harlem Hospital's community clinics, where his daily methadone dosage is being stepped up to his ultimate maintenance level. He is in a pilot program designed to see whether the early hospitalization...
...analysis. On these visits, patients are required to drink a full dose of methadone to show that they have been taking it at home and have retained their tolerance. This precaution is continued indefinitely, even after patients have held a job for a year or more. In the pilot program, in which hospitalization is omitted, preliminary results appear to be as good as those from the original method...