Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage of science and socialism, in Wilson's vision, will ensure accelerated technological progress that can make Britain "the pilot plant of the world." A socialist government will radically step up the training of more scientists, ensure that they are creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources...
...Pilot house for one of the twelve villages making up the 10,000-acre El Dorado Hills development near Sacramento, Calif., consists of four interconnected pavilions for 1) living, 2) parents, 3) teen-age children, 4) service (a two-car garage, plus workshop, laundry, and storage space). The pavilions surround and set off terraces and a rock garden that any Japanese temple might be proud to own. Price...
...week in their offices, but not George E. Keck, 51, the new president of United Air Lines. "I work hard," says Keck, "but I also believe in relaxing when there's time to relax." There may be less time from now on. Though peppery Pat Patterson will still pilot United from his new post as chairman, broad-shouldered, cigar-chewing George Keck will keep his eye for detail on all opera tions, travel at least 100,000 miles a year. Trained in operations and maintenance, Keck believes in as much personal contact as possible with the line...
Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...
Born. To Major Gherman Titov, 28, Soviet cosmonaut, pilot of the world's second manned space flight (August 1961), and Tamara Titov, 25: their first daughter, second child (a son born in 1960 died in infancy); in Moscow...