Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status. The strain is heavy. "I really felt good when Dr. Hastings told me there was no such thing as a happy graduate student, that they are all plagued by pressures and indecision," says Captain Phil Hansen, an Indiana University business school graduate with twelve years in the Air Force...
...Corps' pilot projects involves the establishment of college volunteer service centers such as Phillips Brooks House. Liebgott, as chairman of the PBH Mental Hospitals Committee, will serve as an advisor, helping other colleges to organize similar mental hospital volunteer groups...
Liebgott describes his role in the Corps as "paving the way for the future volunteers who will be doing the real work. Once the groundwork is laid for the various pilot programs, which also include work with juvenlie delinquents and the aged, the Service Corps will begin active recruiting...
Passengers flying between San Francisco and Los Angeles on Pacific Southwest Airlines last week were startled to hear the pilot announce that a strange object had appeared on the radar screen. After a moment, the pilot added that the object had landed on the wing. Just then Santa Claus burst forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor...
...intrastate airline in the U.S. In its fleet of six Electras, P.S.A. in 1964 carried more than 1,500,000 passengers, 50.4% of all those flying the route v. Western's 27.8%, United's 18.1% and TWA's 3.7%. Under its aggressive president, ex-R.A.F. Pilot J. Floyd Andrews, 48, P.S.A. early took a firm lead on the route by pioneering low-cost commuter service, offering the most frequent flights and compiling a good record of on-time arrivals and departures...