Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting zone, Koerner's plane also carried the bodies of a pilot and a photographer who had been killed the day before Back in Saigon, Koerner showed his sketches to Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, then touring Viet Nam. There was little question: the cover would be a scene near An Khe. At dawn next morning, just two weeks before press time for this issue, Koerner and Correspondent Zich were at Saigon airport trying to hitch a ride back to An Khe, where the artist would do the final oil painting from life. Ceiling zero, visibility less than 100 yards...
Private industry is also stepping up its spending. Volkswagen is laying out $100 million to double its plant capacity, and Ford is investing $30 million to enable its truck and tractor factory to assemble automobiles as well. Alcoa has set up a pilot company as the first step toward establishing a $51 million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil...
...unromantic, ethically dubious business, transcated by people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides...
...swim of the English Channel, from Dover to Calais and back in 30 hrs. 3 min., slashing more than 13 hrs. from the old record set by Argentina's Antonio Abertondo in 1961. A Chicago research chemist, Erikson battled cold, exhaustion, schools of jellyfish and hallucinations ("when the pilot boat turned into a rosebush, I just closed my eyes...
...Commissioner at a salary of $21,500, Mortimer Caplin was earning $50,000 a year in his tax law practice; since returning to private life more than a year ago, he has built up an income that "runs into six figures." Last week Najeeb Halaby, a onetime Navy test pilot who resigned last July after four years as administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency ($30,000 a year), was elected a senior vice president and board member of Pan American World Airways at $60,000 a year, plus a $35,000 year-end bonus, plus substantial stock options...