Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majestic Titan II rocket lifted off precisely on schedule, hurling Gemini 7 toward a new chapter in space exploration. Five minutes after Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell Jr. took off, a ground controller exclaimed: "You're right down the slot!" Command Pilot Borman radioed back: "That's the best thing I've heard...
DODGE CITY is Hanoi, where a pilot has to JINK (zigzag) to keep from getting zapped from the ground...
While Roosevelt does not believe the commission's guidelines "will cause a revolution in job patterns," he promised that the commission would "work cautiously" to avoid creating absurd situations. They will doubtless arise anyway. What about the woman pilot who aspires to be an airlines captain? Or the man who loves kids so much that he applies for a job as a nanny? The male homosexual who would like to fit bras for a living? Hardly more farfetched is the case of two prostitutes, Jeanette McDonald and Hattie May Smith, who have appealed convictions in Oakland, Calif...
...another program of legal aid to the poor. The Office of Economic Opportunity has suggested that a group of students study legal education of the poor. Eight volunteers are now working on the problem. Their research in this area of "preventive law" may be used in establishing a pilot project next summer. They are working on two basic problems: compiling a list of precedents likely to be relevant in cases raised by the poor; and exploring methods of communicating legal concepts to the poor...
...Russians, then, have good reason to fear subrosa agreements between the Defense Department and the West Germans. Under the present controls, no West German pilot could fly a plane carrying nuclear weapons -- or even board one -- without authorization from the President. But in 1958 and 1959--as a Senator Clinton B. Anderson, a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, told the Senate -- the Defense Department concealed custody arrangements which "raised serious problems of possible unauthorised use or accidental detonation...