Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Burch, 36, deputy campaign director. A Goldwater booster since undergraduate days at the University of Arizona, Burch joined the Senator's Washington staff in 1955, became a close personal friend, and even got his flying license after lessons from Old Pilot Goldwater. The youngest of Goldwater's top aides, Burch plunged into the thankless job of scheduling campaign appearances, aided Kitchel in a notable job of offending the fewest possible Republicans despite the candidate's disturbing penchant for last-minute cancellations...
...strip, oil drums were set alight to make a landing flare path, and New Zealand's nearby Scott Base turned on all its lights as a beacon in case of trouble. "The place is lit up like a Christmas tree," exclaimed the pilot over his radio. Down to McMurdo between jagged peaks came the Hercules, as a small group of Americans on the ice breathed tensely through frozen beards. The landing was perfect, and, while ground crewmen serviced the plane, the Salvation Army's apples were off-loaded along with the mail and a helicopter carried Seabee McMullen...
Although the pilot and Teddy's aide, Edward Moss, were killed in the crash, the Kennedy luck stretched far enough to cover his other traveling companions, Indiana Senator and Mrs. Birch Bayh. Strapped down by their seat belts, the Bayhs suffered torn back muscles, but they were saved from serious or fatal injuries. What puzzled the doctors, though, was how the Senator had been able to help Kennedy get away from the wreck. Once he got to the hospital and had time to realize how badly he had been banged up, Bayh was in too much pain to move...
...gets his greatest satisfaction from advising customers on how and when to raise expansion capital. As he has taken on more responsibility, he has had to give up his favorite diversions one by one. Miller no longer does much birdwatching. He still holds a private pilot's license, but disposed of his single-engined Comanche 250 a few years ago, and "we sold off the last two little old polo ponies last year...
...increased planning, Lange's idea of vitalizing a Communist economy is to eliminate much central planning and introduce a full-scale market economy dominated by the profit motive. Lange's writings have seeded increasingly vocal bodies of so-called "revisionist economists" in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Pilot schemes for decentralized planning and a form of the profit motive are being tried in East Germany, and even in Russia, where Economist Yevgeni Liberman has incorporated many of Lange's market ideas in his own proposals for decentralization...