Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made him work for his spending money, pumped a little prairie poetry into his views and whetted his appetite to study history, which he did for eleven years. Crane had three brothers, all superachievers, two of whom are running for Congress this fall (the oldest, a Marine jet pilot, was killed in an exhibition flight). If this sounds familiar, rest assured television writers have already called the Cranes the "Kennedys of the Middle West...
...hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce's horrible physical condition. He didn't always look like that; that's visible from two even more rare tapes of Bruce on the Steve Allen show, and even better, the misbegotten film that might have been the pilot for a TV series. A fascinating combination of infrequently seen films, for which Off the Wall deserves congratulations. congratulations...
...Tate learn that a daughter, Victoria, had been born of one of their last trysts. Finally in 1975, Victoria, now a film star herself, was granted a three-month exit visa to visit the U.S. Soon after a highly publicized meeting with her father, she married an American pilot and settled in Connecticut...
Other credentials of a hard-nosed variety may then be displayed. MacArthur the successful businessman: founder of Graphics, a company devoted to making sophisticated copies of engineers' blueprints. MacArthur the licensed pilot and balloonist who ten years ago soared over the Arctic Circle in a basket of his own making, Q.E.D., Charlie MacArthur is no starry-eyed idealist. Charlie MacArthur is no nut. And having more or less settled that question, he can relax and go back to all the other things Charlie MacArthur is, including owner of the biggest clubhouse a boy and his gang could ever dream...
...other programs, the result of brain research and studies of perception, seem straight out of Buck Rogers. In one, the Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to link fighter pilots directly to computers. As the pilot dons his helmet, fine needles will project into his scalp and enable him to shoot a rocket merely by thinking the command to fire. Another project, developed at Fort Benning, Ga., allows a commander to send silent coded orders to troops in the field-electronic blips are transmitted through electrodes attached to the upper arms or abdomens of each soldier. So far, Watson reports...