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...possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered, "you're looking...
CONTRARY TO THE IMPRESSION LEFT IN your immigration story [Sept. 20], Tyson Foods aggressively follows U.S. hiring laws. You described the government's Basic Pilot program as an easy way for companies to verify a prospective employee's legal status yet omitted that Tyson has voluntarily participated in the program for years. You cited the prosecution's case against Tyson in a 2003 immigration trial yet barely mentioned that a jury acquitted the company. When so many companies have moved jobs offshore, those of us that have chosen to keep jobs here are working hard to provide for our employees...
...unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, California. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training - and famously brilliant at it nonetheless - Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours. In the lunar program, NASA...
...think it looks like we’re really close to those mountains,” the pilot says over the loudspeaker, “it’s because we are.” The other passengers and I chuckle—nervously—as the plane descends suddenly between two huge green mountains to land on a runway reminiscent of the average driveway. Out the window, I am searching for the airport—where is it? I pick up my red backpack and walk down the steps, and trailing the others towards what looks like...
...Houghton Mifflin; 391 pages) began in early spring 2001 with a single sentence, not one of Roth's own but a chance comment by the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who speculates in his autobiography that in 1940 some right-wing members of the Republican Party considered drafting the pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. "That's it," Roth chuckles over the phone, surprisingly relaxed and wry for a man who jealously guards his privacy. "That's all it took. It should always be that easy...