Word: piloted
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...people from the small town of Waldport, Oregon, dropped everything to follow Bo and Peep. A 1975 TIME article described Applewhite as having a "rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message." (Such was Bo and Peep's appeal that NBC aired a series pilot called The Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem the drop in membership, Bo and Peep instituted...
BREAST-FEEDING ARMY PILOT...
...feel sorry for Lieut. Cuevas and her daughter Isabella. The Army will probably win on this issue, and Cuevas will have to complete her military obligation. I'm afraid the Army will have a tired, frustrated and resentful pilot, but it will have a pilot. The bond between a nursing mother and her child is stronger than anything I have ever known. I am a former U.S. Air Force captain, and I breast-fed my first son. Other officers may believe Cuevas is "selfish and a disgrace to women in the military," but I think she is demonstrating selflessness...
DIED. COLONEL JOHN R. BOYD, 70, military theorist; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Air Force pilot's discovery that a plane's agility, not its speed, was a key factor in aerial combat shaped the quick-response design...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: American Airlines and its pilots' union reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Wednesday that is vague in the fine points but clear in its determination to avoid a crippling shutdown that would affect 20 percent of the nation's travelers. The contract, negotiated in seclusion on Orcas Island, Washington, will be presented to the union's board on Friday for approval. Captain Michael Cronin, the pilot's chief of legislative affairs, declined to give details of the agreement, saying, "We want our board of directors to hear it from negotiators and not from the press...