Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Language of Money. The newly aroused British could teach even the hardselling U.S. trader a trick or two. One steel-products maker, Brockhouse Trading Facilities, found that its export manager, Reg Parkes, had been an R.A.F. pilot, bought him a small plane for calling on Continental customers. Wilkinson Sword Ltd., the blademaker, now treats the British market simply as part of Europe, and salesmen travel to Milan or Hamburg as casually as to Glasgow...
...filed suit against everyone who might be involved-the Federal Aviation Agency, which was in charge of traffic control, United Airlines, and TWA as well. It mattered not a bit that after prolonged investigation the Civil Aeronautics Board pinned the entire blame for the crash on United's pilot...
Married. Francis Gary Powers, 34, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960, now a test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Claudia Edwards Downey, 28, CIA psychologist; both for the second time; in Catlett...
Died. Michael John Lithgow, 43, ace test pilot for British Aircraft Corp., onetime holder of the world speed record (737.3 m.p.h. in 1953); in a test-flight crash, with six other top British flyers and engineers, of the prototype BAG One-Eleven, the free world's first short-haul jetliner; near Chicklade, Wiltshire...
...Graduate School of Education--which regularly cooperates with local school systems--the University could send experts to various "problem" schools in the North and South to improve curricula and classroom methods, and to provide special help for students with educational deficiencies. Harvard could undoubtedly attract foundation money for pilot projects in slum schools, similar to New York City's "Higher Horizons" program. And such an Ed School venture has ample precedent: if the University can provide educators to set up a secondary school in Nigeria, it can certainly sponsor a limited program to improve Negro education in this country...