Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Donald G. Nutter, 46, Montana's outspoken Republican Governor, a World War II bomber pilot who later served in the state senate, won the governorship in 1960 on a hold-the-budget plank, condemned the United Nations as "a forum for the enemies" and refused to proclaim U.N. Day in Montana; in the crash of a state Air National Guard C-47 into a Montana mountainside...
...months Rodriguez Echavarria, a onetime jet pilot, had seemed the very model of a penitent military man. He even became something of a hero for helping break up an attempted comeback by the dead dictator's brothers last November. But the popularity soon waned, and before long Dominicans were demanding his resignation along with that of Puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, who had agreed to step down on or before Feb. 27. The general had other ideas...
...detective fiction, moving toward the revelation of a "forgotten" experience. Under Pentothal, a waist-gunner tells Newman how he survived a B-24 crash in North Africa. In the wreckage he stumbled across the other waist-gunner-headless. As he ran from the burning plane he heard the pilot, his buddy, calling him by name for help. The plane then exploded...
Another patient, a ball-turret gunner, was trapped in the turret after his plane was shot up. Several of his bones were broken. Highly flammable oil began to seep into the turret. The boy screamed until the oil reached his lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that...
...Leinsdorf started again after a jump of ten pages in the score to cut out some of the more tortuous vocal passages, and Baritone Edelmann came on again as Wotan, in brighter voice after his rest. Happily, they all made it to the final curtain. "I felt like the pilot who decides on a crash landing," said Leinsdorf. "We made it without the plane going up in flames...