Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the crew members from the ships took to lifeboats, but some leaped into the water; all but two were rescued. One of them was plucked out of the shark-infested sea by Harold Mockford, a fearless helicopter pilot who also flew through flame and smoke to save 13 men who had been trapped aboard the Venoil. The rest of the survivors were rescued by two passing British merchant ships...
...Friday afternoon, a red, white and blue Texas International Airlines DC-9 took off from Mexico City carrying the first group of 61 transfers. Three hours later, when the pilot announced the jet was passing over the border, the cabin erupted with cheering and sobbing. At San Diego's Lindbergh Field, scores of jubilant and tearful relatives, many waving "Welcome Home" signs, shouted prisoners' names as the transfers were whisked aboard a bus. Said Robin Worthington, 31, of San Francisco at a brief press conference: "It was a long battle, but we're home...
ALVIN TOFFLER speaks with a ring of conviction and moral purpose in his voice. Ten minutes before he was to pilot himself to the next stop on his lecture circuit (aviation is one of his hobbies), Toffler, on the pretense of responding to a question, rose and delivered a deadly serious warning to the 100 or so people who had come to the Science Center to hear him speak. With perfect elocution and rising intensity, Toffler beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions...
Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested...
...told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot be furnished with a new seat-type silk parachute and that no criticism be made if the parachutes were used...