Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always have to bear in mind," he said, "that people are the purpose and object of this endeavor, from the biggest corporation president down to the poorest sharecropper. They have a babylike faith in me. It is just like the faith that you have in that pilot that's flying your airplane...
Tall, humorless Ian Douglas Smith is a rough customer. As a Spitfire pilot with the R.A.F. during World War II, he survived a crash that left the right side of his face paralyzed, was later shot down over Italy and fought for five months with Italian partisans behind the German lines. After the war, under former Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. But Sir Roy did not believe in complete independence from Britain, and Smith split with...
...Columbus, Ohio-from the direction opposite the one she left in. In between, she had lost three pounds, flown the Atlantic and Pacific, covered 22,858.8 miles with 21 stops and become the first woman in history to fly solo around the world. Mrs. Mock had moxie. A pilot for only seven years, the petite blonde had logged just 750 solo hours before setting out. Her single-engine Cessna 180, Spirit of Columbus, was eleven years old, and even Lloyd's of London refused to underwrite the trip. Why had she chosen a small plane like that? Simple...
With 2,500,000 vehicles using the new bridge-tunnel every year, booming Norfolk sees only progress ahead. "The sheer beauty," crooned the local Virginian-Pilot, "is a shining demonstration of the theme that form follows function, undulating up and down as with the waves of the bay it traverses...
Mayer described a pilot project in his own district aimed at developing methods that can increase achievement and motivation among Negro and Puerto Rican children...