Word: pilots
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Almost as well known was Jim Smith's yen for Gates's job after he finished a self-imposed two-year ICA tour. Smith, a wartime carrier pilot and postwar Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1953-56), appeared a natural to become Secretary. But Gates, with White House approval, offered the job to Under Secretary William Birrell Franke (rhymes with lanky), 64, wealthy retired accountant and since 1954 a quietly competent assistant secretary for financial management. When Franke declined for health reasons (arthritis), Gates suggested Smith...
Cruising on automatic pilot 35,000 ft. over the Atlantic last week, a new Pan American 707 jet transport suddenly nosed into a steepening glide that pressed 124 aboard tightly to their seats. Fighting heavy gravity forces, Captain W. Waldo
Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed that sudden de-icing of the 707's trimmed elevators had sent the jet's nose down. Favorite statistic of survivors: just before the 29,000-ft. descent, Captain Lynch had climbed from 28,000 ft. to 35,000 ft. to get over a storm...
...Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi, Hume was Johnny Bird, a Canadian test pilot. At intervals, he would vanish mysteriously on "business trips...
Tragedy. Cushing first saw Squaw Valley in 1946. hiked into it (there was no road then) with a likable skier and Pan American World Airways pilot named Wayne Poulsen. who had bought up much of the valley's land. Over the bridge table that night, Alec cautiously asked his wife: "How would you like to live in these mountains?" Justine did not look up from her cards. "Are you out of your mind, Cushing?" she inquired icily. But two years later the Cushings and the McFaddens headed west once more to check on Squaw as a possible ski resort...