Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real banker would probably laugh at The Moneychangers, just as would a doctor at Hailey's The Final Diagnosis, an auto worker at Wheels, or a pilot at Airport. Everything is close enough to believability to satisfy the uninitiated, and sensationalized enough, no doubt, to outrage real experts. It's doubtful that all bankers have "disciplined, steely" minds, as Hailey's do, or that single executives actually live in apartments with shaggy rugs and modern furniture and fireplaces and spectacular views of the city below, or that presidents or corporations are all egomaniacs who own private jets. These exaggerations fall...
...answer: several shades of green and red. The evasion: composed Reagan shoots back that he'd rather have a pilot flying his airplane drunk than high on grass because then he could tell that he was drunk and get him the hell out of there. Simple, sharp, insouciant, irrelevant, inconsistent...
Dutch grumbling about Bernhard's German background subsided during World War II. Princess Juliana went to Canada when Germany occupied The Netherlands, but Bernhard stayed in London to serve as a top adviser to Queen Wilhelmina and her government in exile. After earning his fighter-pilot wings with the R.A.F., he organized a Dutch air squadron in 1942; two years later he became commander of the Dutch infantry brigades, including the vast underground army that fought with the Allies to liberate Holland...
...other son, Rajiv, 31, is a pilot for India Airlines, the country's domestic carrier. Mrs. Gandhi's husband, Feroze Gandhi, a newspaper editor and Member of Parliament, died...
...with his powerful and elite show-biz family. But there is another view of all the role playing. "To know Michael well is to know he doesn't have much of a center," says a colleague, "so he collects roles. He goes from being a cowboy to a pilot to a daddy...