Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diplomats in Rangoon concede that, compared to the rest of Southeast Asia -with the notable exception of sturdy and prosperous little Thailand-Burma is not too badly off. In other words, it has just managed to avoid disaster. But that still leaves it far from being a pilot plant for Western policy in Asia...
Roemer and Young's Harvard movie, A Touch of the Times, was a sort of individualism. The hero inspires mankind to go outside and fly kites. This was the pilot venture of Ivy Films, a full-length movie which took two years and $2300 to make. Roemer reflects that "the ambitiousness of the enterprise gives it what little life it has." He had to replace the starring actor five times because his cast kept graduating or going on probation during those two years...
Both PBH and state parole-board officials hope to expand this pilot program. If the evaluation is favorable, a new PBH committee to work with the Youth Service Board may be instituted next year, John Strucker, '66, co-chairman of the Lyman Committee, said yesterday...
...added that ABCD hopes to set up a smaller pilot program in April and May which might employ a few of the students who had been recruited for the larger program. Smith said that ABCD has already appropriated funds for the project...
Cocoons on the Cliff. On the third day, the pilot of a search plane circled over their heads but failed to spot them -three tiny human spiders, inching their way up the mountain. As soon as the plane banked away, clouds swept in. At 3 a.m. it began snowing, and 60-m.p.h. gusts lashed at the climbers, clinging like cocoons to the cliff in their sleeping bags. One gust ripped the tent off Bonatti's head, and tiny slivers of ice, sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position...