Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sixth District, Peabody Mayor Nicholas Mavroules, the easy winner of a three-man Democratic primary, is likewise expected to make Republican airline pilot William Bronson a two-time loser tomorrow (Bronson ran for the seat in 1976, and gave Harrington a scare that some say was a factor in his decision not to run for re-election last June.). The Sixth, while the home of Yankees like Frank Hatch, beautiful beaches and country clubs, is also the home of dying cities like Lynn and Haverhill, and so is likely to remain in the Democratic column...
...could a veteran pilot like Veldhuizen have made such a drastic mistake? Harried by an already lengthy delay on Tenerife, the study speculated, he may have rushed his takeoff to avoid violating a KLM rule against crew overtime. Erratic weather conditions may also have pressed him. The radio "whistle" could have blipped out some essential communications, and imprecise language, by both tower and KLM crew, may have confused matters even further...
...expect Frank Navarro to languish on the shores of Princeton's Lake Carnegie for long, however. Whether on the highway-lined banks of the Harlem or alongside the meandering Wabash, Frank Navarro has proved himself an able pilot on perilous waters...
China and Taiwan employ the same system in competing for defectors. Prices in Taiwan for Communist pilots range from 6,000 taels of gold (worth about $900,000) for a defector flying a late-model TU-16 bomber to 500 taels (about $75,000) for a pilot with an obsolete cargo aircraft. So far, four pilots have qualified for rewards, the latest in July 1977. Mainland China offers higher prices - up to 7,000 taels (about $1,050,000) for a Nationalist pilot in a Phantom fighter - but so far there have been no takers...
...circle of relatives, friends, lovers-and relatives of friends and lovers-expands in this book to meet the need. Pug's immediate family is Navy all the weigh: at the Battle of Midway, Victor Henry commands the cruiser Northampton, while his son Warren is a dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium...