Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Experiment. Indeed Bulgaria has been among the slowest of the satellites to "liberalize" in the vital area of personal and artistic freedom. Premier Zhivkov prides himself on the "social realism" of his painters and writers -party hacks in the main. Unlike Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians remain vigilant and hard-handed in controlling public expression. But in one critical area, the economy, Bulgaria has proved as "liberal" as her neighbors...
Arguments in favor of increased reliance on the profit motive appear regularly in the party theoretical journal, Novo Vreme, and although the economy is still predominantly controlled by central authorities, a pilot experiment in decentralization proved outstandingly successful last year. The Liliana Dimitrova textile plant in Sofia was permitted to work out its own production plan, obtain its own materials and dispose of its own goods with a minimum of higher direction. Not only did the plant exceed its planned requirements, but by the year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage...
...perfect, gentle stop, shook hands with a newspaperman ("That boy's palm was barely moist," he reported to the crowd), and bounded on to the twin-engined-plane test. The red, white and black Aztec swooped without a tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander, he said, had fiddled with the plane's gasoline tank cap, but "there was nothing to worry about, I probably only lost...
Onward he went, this time to wheel a helicopter up and out of view, and back again. A helicopter is a perverse and difficult craft; a pilot has to use both hands and feet, and even the pros consider them miserable things to handle. "This fellow did a masterly job," said FAA Supervisor Joe Princen. Said Gregory: "I am probably supposed to have been nervous, but I wasn...
Gregory's father runs an airplane taxi company, and his mother is an accomplished pilot, as is an older brother. Even his twelve-year-old brother David can fly the family Aztecs, although the law insists a pilot be 16 before he can solo. Gregory's window overlooks the Potter family helipad, and he is now empowered to take out the family chopper any time. This puts him one up on his father, who has not got around to taking that test...