Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilot's Picnic...
...cheeked freshmen are giving oldtimers the closest shaves of their lives. California's Eleventh District is a case in point. There, seven-term Republican Representative Leroy Johnson, 68, is hard pressed by 38-year-old Democratic State Assemblyman John J. McFall. Incum bent Johnson, World War I combat pilot, is running mostly on his House seniority and is reliving his long past ("I don't think they should have killed the League of Nations"). Challenger McFall is running on his own energies and ambitions, and, like many another Demo cratic House candidate, is not depending on the national...
...World War II, is favored over scholarly Democratic Incumbent Don Hayworth, 58, in the state's Sixth District. Running for the seat vacated in Michigan's Seventh District by Republican Veteran Jesse Wolcott, retiring at 63, is is G.O.P. Candidate Robert J. Mclntosh, 34, Air Force fighter pilot, who flew 31 missions over Europe during World War II, was shot down four days after Dday, spent the summer of 1944 working with the French underground. Mclntosh is rated neck and neck with Democrat Ira Dean McCoy, 67. Holding a narrow margin over Texas only Republican incumbent, Bruce Alger...
...daylight. At 8:04 a.m. Ogg announced: ten minutes. Then, one minute. The passengers braced. Ogg carefully aimed the big Boeing Stratocruiser for a strip of white fire-fighting foam that Pontchartrain had laid to aid the pilot's depth perception. He kissed the plane onto the hard waves, touching gently at first. Then it bounced hard, whipped around violently as an engine tore loose, snapped in two. Quickly the crew discharged and inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train...
...complished are still secret. Radar is not the whole story. The luminous screens will probably be flat cathode ray (TV) tubes, and they will get their information from all of the airplane's sensing instruments. The computer will be able to watch more instruments than the pilot's eyes and brain could possibly handle. If asked to do so by the pilot, it could come to a complex decision and act upon it in the second or so that is all future flight speeds will permit...