Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is one way we could fix that prop," says co-pilot Joe, who is on his first regular fight since graduating from pilot school...
...will do in an everyday preposterous situation. Reel One: meet alluring Anita Ekberg, being flown out of Las Vegas to become a B-girl in Boca Grande, South America. Reels Two and Three: meet eight other passengers who will fly to Boca Grande with her, including a vodka-drinking pilot (Yes ... (sob), she was killed that night by a truck...
...officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J. Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country's military academy and an old hand...
...honor," the principal warned students at St. Mary's Roman Catholic coeducational high school in Lynn, Mass. "The only serious reason which would justify going steady is the hope of marriage in the near future. This reason should be absolutely nonexistent for any high-school student." Said The Pilot, organ of the archdiocese of Boston: "A forthright and, we may hope, decisive treatment...
Paratroops & Passengers. Chairman Chennault can also take satisfaction from the fact that CAT's new management, headed by ex-Pan American Pilot George A. Doole Jr., vice chairman, has managed to turn his idea into a moneymaking operation. With a reputation for flying anything, anywhere, anytime, CAT was right on the spot flying charter flights for the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war, helped out during the fight for Dienbienphu in Indo-China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese...