Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With all that, Scott still finds time for games. A champion sailplane pilot, he set a British record in 1960 by soaring to an altitude of 18,300 ft. He won a bronze medal in sailing at the 1936 Olympics, and he is a three-time winner of Britain's Prince of Wales Cup for international-class 14-ft. dinghy racing. But when Owner Tony Boyden asked him to take the helm of his America's Cup challenger Sovereign this spring, Scott complained that he was "out of practice." He had not sailed in topflight competition since...
...times in eight races. Experts found plenty to criticize in Sovereign's construction: her untapered, top-heavy mast, her primitive rigging, her poorly cut sails. But they had nothing but praise for Scott. "I've known Peter Scott for a long time," said Bob Bavier, who will pilot Constellation, the U.S. defender. "He's liable to be real tough...
...Front Raid. In Johannesburg, a pal of Tshombe's, Patrick O'Malley, a former R.A.F. bomber pilot and Brigade of Guards officer, was recruiting 25 to 30 mercenaries a day. By week's end, Tshombe had gathered some 200 mercenaries. Early arrivals had already gone into action against the rebels-and lost. Led by two South African officers, a force of 35 mercenaries and 50 Katanga gendarmes attempted a daring, two-front commando raid on Albertville to rescue 140 European hostages held by Rebel Chieftain Gaston...
...This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...
...also beginning to move in the opposite direction. The Ford Foundation set aside $300,000 to give 60 professors of engineering up to 15 months of academic leave to work in industry. And Stanford University's School of Engineering last week announced plans to expand a three-year pilot program, originally undertaken with Westinghouse, which lets graduate students at its Institute in Engineering-Economic Systems alternate their studies with working for a company...