Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laker anticipated the difficulty of starting a low-fare service in the fall and seems prepared to ride out a lackluster winter. He insists that he can break even if only 189 of the 345 seats on each of his flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar...
...hunter"?professional killer; Craw, an old China hand of archbishoprical speech and mien, shamelessly based on the form and choler of Sunday Times Correspondent Richard Hughes: "We colonize them. Your Graces ... we are hideous not only in their sight, Monsignors, but in their nostrils." Ricardo, the mercenary Mexican pilot: " 'How it happened,' he said. 'Listen, I tell you how it happened.' And then I'll kill you, said his eyes." Smaller roles are no less memorable: "My minor characters are always getting out of scale," confesses their creator. "I keep promising them a treat in the next book...
BORN. To Paul McCartney, 35; owl-eyed Beatle, songwriter (Yesterday) and pilot of Wings, his highflying, soft-rock group, and Linda Eastman McCartney, 35, singer and photographer: their third child, first son; in London. Name: James Louis...
DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
...company maintained ftat Gravitt was being investigated at the time of his suicide for philandering with employees on company time. He was accused of trying to seduce a female Bell employee in his private plane on a trip between San Antonio and Laredo as the plane flew on automatic pilot...