Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS 9-11 p.m.). The War Lover, Columbia's 1962 rendering of John Mersey's chilling novel about a World War II B-17 bomber pilot who lives to kill, filmed on location in England and starring Steve McQueen...
Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
Back home in Indiana, Astronaut Frank Borman, 37, had a pilot's caution about the U.S. space program. "It is inevitable," he warned in Gary, "that we must lose a crew in space some day. All of us have lost friends in flying. I hope the public is mature enough to know that we must pay with money, and certainly with lives...
Four professors from the Law School are participating in a 15-week pilot project to instruct Brookline high school teachers in American constitutional...
...plane at his own expense, took his students aloft. Then he taught a second class two nights a week to 18 teachers so they could qualify to teach ground-school courses. He also found three other flying instructors in the school system and two already qualified ground teachers. The pilot-instructors include two Negro teachers (a third of the students are Negro) plus Mrs. Georgia Eidson, an energetic history teacher and former Women's Air Force pilot. With that nucleus, school officials made the course a regular part of the curriculum this year. It includes instruction in aerodynamics, meteorology...