Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel opens, Kinsman is 21, an idealistic Air Force test pilot. He loves to fly, and he wants to be an astronaut. He is told: "You don't believe they'll actually give you what you want, do you? They'll use you for cannon fodder... They'll put you in a war plane and order you to kill people." Kinsman, already straining his Quaker heritage by joining the military, vows he won't be a pawn of a system he does not like but must deal with to get what he wants--into space...
However, the plane didn't want to go anymore than we did. After a half hour of watching the pilot stroke this 727's nose and pet it on the wings, we finally boarded, set to touch down in Syracuse 50 minutes later--just in time to miss the opening gun in Ithaca...
...crackdowns on corrupt officials. The federal attorney general, Oscar Florez Sanchez, declared that he would investigate "everybody from the governor of Coahuila on down" after $6.6 million worth of denim dyes were smuggled into Mexico aboard a plane owned by the state government; the digging finally focused on the pilot and an associate. The Mexican information agency announced last spring that 900 investigations into public corruption had begun. So far none of those investigations has produced even an indictment, much less a conviction. Charges Hero Rodriguez Toro, editor of the weekly newsmagazine Proceso: "We have a curious method of punishing...
...Pope's speeches may not permanently affect Church attendance, however. "It will take a lot more factors than a Pope's visit for people to decide whether to join the Church," Father Francis Rimkus, managing editor of the Pilot--the archdiocese newspaper--said...
...football center is a little like an airline pilot and a lot like a garbage man. Only failure attracts attention; success passes unnoticed...