Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serious Problem. A three-year pilot program in Chicago developed into a permanent "Family Living Center" last year, is expanding two more locations this year and, as one official puts it, "Even our waiting list has a waiting list." Most of the centers serve areas with a high Negro school population, although teen-age pregnancy is certainly not confined to Negro neighborhoods, and is a serious problem in white society as well...
...Legislatures debate pilot programs for education of gifted children, sales of good products, and other consumer issues, all of which affect women because they affect the home. However, it's the men who are passing those laws," she said...
Grissom got that chance when he was picked as the pilot of America's first two-man spacecraft. With the launching of Gemini 3 on its three-orbit flight on March 23, 1965, Grissom became the first man ever to journey twice into space. Aided by Co-Pilot John Young, he scored yet another space first when he took over the controls himself, skill- fully piloted the craft through a series of tricky orbit-changing maneuvers. After that success, Grissom seemed to loosen up. The Apollo flight would have made him the only man to enter space three times...
...astronaut heroes, it was as much for his offhanded casualness as for the feat itself. With the world following his every move, White stepped out of orbiting Gemini 4 at the end of a 24-ft. tether, strolled in space for a spell, then matter-of-factly informed Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's fun. I'm not coming in." At one point, McDivitt protested: "Hey, you smeared my window you dirty dog." Replied the floating White: "Yep." He finally returned to the capsule after a 20-minute stroll- during which he maneuvered far more freely than Soviet...
...ride when he "was barely old enough to strap on a parachute," let him take the controls as soon as they were airborne. White naturally gravitated to West Point, graduated in 1952, earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, became a jet pilot. He married a petite blonde he met on a West Point football weekend; they had a son and a daughter...