Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fighter Pilot...
Carlson received both a masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1963 after serving two years as a jet fighter pilot with the Air Defense Command. He taught economics at the Air Force Academy in Colorado for six years. In 1965, he held a one-year appointment as Assistant for Special Studies with the Secretary of the Air Force...
Last week CAT announced that it was suspending all international passenger flights after the airline's only jet, a leased Boeing 727, nosed into a tea plantation near Taipei, killing 21 of the 63 persons aboard (among the survivors: CAT's Chief Pilot Stuart E. Dew, 46, who served as General George Marshall's personal pilot during his China mission in 1946). Though the suspension was said to be temporary, everyone's best guess was that it probably meant CAT's death...
Loan's act caused little stir in Sai gon, where for two years the general has waged a ruthless, successful campaign against street terrorists. His fellow student in pilot-school days and longtime sponsor in government, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, dismissed the incident with little more than a shrug. But the execution aroused sharp world opinion, and raised a question that has concerned the U.S. since it took on the Viet Cong: How should prisoners in a guerrilla war be treated...
...Eastern Airlines' former Chief Pilot H. T. ("Dick") Merrill still feels at ease in the cockpit of a commercial airliner. So he was right at home riding a jump seat on an Eastern run from"Miami to New York City, where he was hailed by the National Aeronautic Association for "enhancing the prestige of the U.S. as the world's leader in aviation." Quite a leader himself, Merrill has an unmatched 40,000 hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything...