Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and went into the Marine Corps as a jet fighter pilot did he find his vocation. Since lawyers are not required in most military trials, Bailey was able to become legal officer for 2,000 Marines at Cherry Point, N.C., and he tried more than 200 cases. With credit for his time in service, he was then allowed to skip further...
...about 560 m.p.h., Monster suddenly lurched to the right and went air borne, cartwheeling end over end, leaving twisted bits of metal strewn over a mile of salt. Helicopter Pilot Robert Hosking was the first on the scene. "I didn't think anybody could possibly be alive," Hosking said later. "But then I saw an arm move." Securely strapped into his fleece-lined welded-steel cockpit, which escaped serious damage (although the canopy was ripped off), Arfons was not only alive-except for some cuts and bruises, he was absolutely unhurt. Monster was a total write-off. Arfons...
...high-domed, husky (6 ft. 31 in.) Floridian with a deceptive, country-cousin air, Lawyer Boyd comes to the job with impressive professional credentials. A combat pilot with more than 3,000 hours of flying time (World War II and Korea), Boyd served successively on state commissions to improve Florida's aviation, highway and railroad systems. A self-styled "Eisenhower Democrat," he was summoned to Washington by Ike in 1959 to serve on the CAB. After President Kennedy appointed him CAB chairman in 1961, Boyd showed his scrappy independence by voting to deny Boston-based Northeast Airlines' application...
...airline captain may be the world's best pilot, but he may not fly without "good moral character." Captain "Richard Roe," father of four, had an unblemished 15-year record with a U.S. airline. He also had a young mistress whom he forced to pose for obscene photographs. When "Miss Doe" married another man, Roe vindictively sent at least 33 of the pictures to the couple's friends, relatives and employers. Not only did Miss Doe attempt suicide; her husband divorced her. Voiding his pilot's license, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that Roe has "a significant...
...year, the network programming departments examine 1,200 story ideas, most of them submitted by packaging producers, not counting a few by little old ladies with simply unforgettable adventures. Of these suggestions, 350 or so actually are turned into scripts. The next stage is supposed to be a pilot production, but since a one-hour pilot film costs upwards of $350,000, only 90 are ventured a year, and less than half of that number ever...