Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into Paradise." And to a few, it was the time when Air Force One, the blue-and-white presidential jet, thundered over the graveside ceremony in Arlington Cemetery. Said the pilot later: "The President liked the plane so much. We just thought it would be nice to fly over...
...President Rómulo Betancourt, terrorists shot it out with Caracas police, fired on pedestrians, bombed power stations. Gift-wrapped bombs were sent to four of Venezuela's seven presidential candidates (all the packages were intercepted); five youths and a girl hijacked an Avensa airliner and forced the pilot to fly to Trinidad, where authorities arrested the hijackers and later turned them over to Venezuela...
...apes (né Lord Greystoke) is coming back in a new book due in March. Forgotten until recently, Tarzan and the Madman is the 25th in the series, was chiseled out by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1940, ten years before his death. It tells how a downed pilot who looks like Tarzan has amnesia and naturally concludes that he's the African swinger himself. Throughout the jungle of circumstance, the real Tarzan is pleased to stand up for his amnesiac imitation when the going gets tough. After all, he has his image to think...
Eastern's new boss is articulate Floyd Hall, 47, who resigned as general manager of Trans World Airlines to take the job. A hard-nosed administrator, Colorado-born Hall joined TWA as a co-pilot in 1940, worked his way up through the flying side until he was appointed general manager in 1961. He has played a key role in turning faltering TWA into a thriving airline...
Died. Donald Dean Summerville, 48, mayor of Toronto, a onetime R.C.A.F. pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey match to raise funds for victims of the recent Italian dam disaster; in Toronto...