Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buffeted by winds of up to 110 m.p.h., a 42-ft. Coast Guard pilot boat, the Can Do, capsized and sank in Salem Harbor. The captain and the four-man crew were drowned. In nearby Nahant, Melvin Demit, 61, was lighting the furnace in his basement, when a wall of water crashed into his house and engulfed him. In Scituate, a raging sea swept five-year-old Amy Lanzikos to her death just as a rescue boat was bringing her to safety...
Members of the Harvard community had a chance to judge for themselves Tuesday, when Cunningham led an historic Learning from Performers lecture-demonstration in the Radcliffe Gym. The Cunningham company is in Massachusetts on a five-week Pilot Long Term Residency program in which master classes, films, and exhibits of work by artists who have been associated with Cunningham complement the company's unique exposition of dance...
...trying to replace everything in the world," says George Tennyson, speaking for DOE. "We just want to be a part of the stable of available power." To that end, the agency will soon build similar pilot projects on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and Block Island, R.I., and plans a 2,000-kw. model for Boone. N.C. The Federal Government wind-energy budget has ballooned to $38 million (a few privately owned turbines already serve remote mountain and island locations). Government experts estimate optimistically that wind power will furnish at least 3% of the nation's electricity by the year...
...pilot program last summer, involving the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's 6,000 Washington employees, produced 216 raw hits. Of these, 77 were found to be totally ineligible for welfare, 39 more were receiving excessive payments, and the remaining 100 were judged fully eligible. Based on those figures, HEW expects to find in the current search 10,000 to 12,000 Government workers who are chiseling the welfare system out of from $10 million to $24 million annually. Chiselers face possible prosecution, having to repay illegal benefits, and loss of their jobs...
...analysis in general is not what it used to be, the agency is still unsurpassed in interpreting technological data. The American public was exposed to the awesome possibilities of aerial espionage when a U-2 spy plane was brought down over the Soviet Union in 1960, and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was put on trial and jailed for two years. Since then the U-2 has been supplemented by an ever expanding array of observation satellites and eavesdropping devices. As a senior member of the National Security Council puts it, "The agency is best when there's something very...