Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move by Local Board 10 has not upset Krents particularly. He does hope the Army will give him some choice of mission: "If I go, my ambition is to be a bombardier. Then it wouldn't be too bad being a pilot either. I bear no ill feelings to the draft board whatever...
Worse, from Mrs. Kennedy's view, was soon to come. A syndicated Washington columnist burst into print with the report that Annemarie was 1) making a pilot film for TV, 2) planning to open a gourmet club in a Manhattan townhouse, and 3) about to publish a cookbook. The column also reported that, presumably because of Annemarie's dietary meals, Jackie had slimmed down from a size 12 to a size 8 dress...
Suddenly Annemarie was a celebrity. A literary agent took charge of her publicity; Attorney Roy Cohn stood by to guard her legal interests. New job offers of up to $35,000 poured in. TV programs, including Johnny Carson, vied for her appearance (reports notwithstanding, she had not made a pilot film), and publishers bid for her cookbook (still uncompleted). As for Jacqueline Kennedy, at week's end she was still looking for another cook...
...eight years, only 164 anglers around the world have qualified for the Ten-to-One Club. Notable among them is Florida's Stu Apte, 37, a Pan American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
...been identified by scientists, who have traced its radio signal back to Jupiter. A spaceship, Discovery I, is dispatched to that remote planet. Aboard are two conscious astronauts (Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood) and three hibernating scientists sealed like mummies in sarcophagi. Also on board is Hal, a computer-pilot programmed to be proud of his job and possessed of a wistful, androgynous voice...