Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project, called Teen-age Employment Skills Training, (TEST), will be sponsored jointly by Harvard, the businessmen. A pilot program, financed Cambridge Rotary, and individual local by a $1000 Rotary grant, will start April 27 as preparation for a major drive next Fall...
...core of the pilot project this sum-the teen-ager an edge in finding a job," mer will be a set of skill courses to "give Clifton said. Courses in small appliance repair, office machines and practices, lawn and child care, and consumer selling will be included in the curriculum. TEST will also set up a labor pool to serve as an "embryonic" employment agency, Clifton said...
Johnson's regular pilot, Colonel James Swindal, flew the President's plane. Next to him in the copilot's seat was General Walter C. Sweeney Jr., commander of the U.S. Tactical Air Command-aboard to direct the massive protective operation. In the air, each of the three 707s was picked up by a swarm of highflying jet F-105s armed with "Catling" guns able to fire 6,000 shots a minute, F-100s with rockets and cannons, F-4Cs with the deadly Sidewinder missile, F-104s and Navy F-4Bs with Sidewinders and cannon, and F-101s...
...anew, the Viet Cong opened a barrage of almost daily attacks, concentrating on the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Boldly, an 800-man guerrilla force ambushed an infantry battalion near Mocay, shot down a T-28 fighter plane that swooped to the rescue -killing its American pilot-and simultaneously lobbed .81-mm. Red Chinese-made mortars into Mocay itself. But the government got in its own licks, several times counterattacked with refreshing aggressiveness. On a forested ridge near the Laotian border, troops overran a Viet Cong staging camp for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail from...
...turned down membership in Yale's elite senior societies, quit a fraternity because of the "mumbo jumbo" of the national chapter. He was chairman of the local America First Com mittee, among a dozen other campus activities, but when war came, lie signed up as a Navy fighter pilot. Instead of returning to Yale, Brewster went through Harvard Law School, became a professor in it, and was talked about as a possible future dean. It was while he was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard with his wife and five children that Mother Yale beckoned. Sailing and walking...