Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking pictures under such conditions lor elaborate equipment. Low-level photo planes carry five or more cameras pointing ahead, astern, to each side and directly down. Since the pilot is too busy with flight controls to give the cameras my attention, they must advance their own film and give each frame the proper exposure for the prevailing light conditions. Pictures can be shot singly but the time over the target is so short that they are generally shot as quickly as possible often many times a second...
...achieved positions of leadership in their American colleges and universities. Christian Ohiri '64, a Nigerian, holds the Crimson career scoring record in soccer; a freshman from Nigeria was elected to the student senate of the University of Wisconsin; a Tanganyikan student at Geneva College, Pa., is working toward a pilot's license in his "spare time;" an undergraduate from Southern Rhodesia at Tufts University taught a summer college course on contemporary Africa; an ASPAU engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania and an ASPAU girl at Brooklyn School of Pharmacy each scored a perfect record of straight A's, Henry...
British Petroleum is building a pilot plant at Lavéra and plans to produce a ton of oil protein per day. The new product will be tried out first as animal feed but there seems to be no reason why it shou d not be fed to humans too. Produced in marketable quantities, it may turn out to be a bargain. Low-grade oil sells tor slightly more than 1? per lb., and a pound of good protein has the nutrient value of 5 lbs. of lean meat...
...chief of General Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian population, killing 1,654 in a few hours. That...
...Bath. On-the-spot direction of the Minuteman sites is in the hands of a slender World War II pilot, Colonel Burton C. Andrus Jr., 45, commander of the 341st. He normally patrols his area in a blue station wagon, with one of three radio-telephones in hand. He can never be more than six rings from any phone, often scrambles out of a bath to hear a voice say: "Very good, Colonel, you made it in 27 seconds...