Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Causey, 35, a former Air Force pilot who holds a master's degree in education and now works as an electronics analyst for defense contractor Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. An enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, red-haired Causey was the first juror accepted by both sides, presently seems to be the jury's leader...
...precautions," but would not spell them out. "Maybe a year from now, or two years, or five years from now, I can tell you what the situation was," said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. The most persistent rumor was that the Secret Service had been tipped that a Cuban kamikaze pilot might try to ram the presidential plane or that a Cuba-based missile might be fired...
...patent office still gets bids for such individualistic inventions as eyeglasses for chickens and coffins with periscopes. And the little man, despite the predominance of the large corporation can still score. A mechanical clam catcher dreamed up a few years back by a onetime airplane pilot has grown into a $5,000,000 business around Maryland's Chesapeake...
...finally fired after a binge climaxed by the attempted arson of Claverly Hall. It was 1938, and de Antonio went to work on the docks to wait for America to enter the War. By 1945 he had flown thirty-eight bombing missions over Japan as the pilot of a Flying Fortress...
Since 1955, when the Joint Committee on Aviation Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington began recording cases of pilot death at the controls, the lethal list has grown to 20. Sometimes it is possible for an alert copilot to take over the controls and save the plane. But if the pilot's attack occurs during the final approach-in those tense seconds just before a plane touches down-it may be too late for anyone to help. And if there is only one pilot, as in many military and private planes, one heart attack...