Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks ago, his Skeeter hit a hidden "pressure heave" in the ice. One runner snapped off and flew back-and that accounts for the 15 stitches in Perrigo's face...
...R.C.A.F. began its ECG program 25 years ago. Among 21,000 aircrew applicants were 99 young men whom the ECG disqualified from pilot training. When these men were carefully reexamined, the doctors found that no fewer than half of them had other abnormalities that previously had escaped detection. It was the ECG that raised the warning flag...
...advantage of annual ECGs is that they enable cardiologists to spot minute but progressive changes. A 42-year-old transport pilot who had been ferrying 137 passengers to and from Europe was recently grounded because of minor but disquieting ECG changes. To make sure that there was no injustice to him, his case was reviewed by not only Canadian but by U.S. and United Kingdom cardiologists. He stayed on the ground...
Jane, lamenting that she must be "the only 22-year-old virgin alive," treks down from Albany to New York to ask Robertson, her airline-pilot brother, a searching question about life and love: "Is a girl that's been going around with a fellow a reasonable amount of time supposed to go to bed with him or not?" Not, sniffs Robertson, a chaser who has remained chaste. Then his favorite dish (Jo Morrow) arrives for breakfast, and off they go into the wild blue of a running gag about brother and his broad in search...
Tougaloo Southern Christian College in Tougaloo, Miss., will be the site this summer of a pilot project of assistance to Southern Negro colleges organized by a group of Harvard graduate students...