Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Ronald H. Conway, 29, who survived the crash, failed three flight tests early in his career, although he later passed his multi-engine and transport-rating tests without a failure...
...When the two engines went out, Pilot Conway asked the flight engineer to open an emergency valve that would have permitted an extra flow of fuel to both dead engines. But Copilot James Greenlee, who was killed in the crash, canceled the request and the valve stayed shut. Testified Conway: "I would much rather have seen that valve open...
...already begun to pump vehicles, artillery and troops into Elisabethville from Leopoldville at U Thant's urgent request. Other Globemasters were bringing more U.N. troops direct from Europe; a battalion of Swedish and a battalion of Irish soldiers arrived at the height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage and one of his engines had been peppered with small-arms fire aimed skyward by Tshombe's own house guards, leading...
...occasion was a pilot demonstration of what the American Academy of General Practice calls Project MORE. The name, no acronym, reflects the academy's urge to recruit more premedical students and thus aid in the production of more doctors, especially G.P.s. Even sharper than the threat of an overall shortage of doctors in the U.S. is the growing scarcity of "family doctors," as more and more medical graduates go immediately into specialty training. The ratio of family doctors (including some specialists, notably internists, but mostly general practitioners) has dropped from one to 1,100 population...
Sunday in New York, by Norman Krasna. has as its heroine an unhip news-chick who is 22 and given to wondering out loud whether she should give up her virginity. The chick (Pat Stanley) is assured by her air pilot brother (Conrad Janis) that nice girls shouldn't. Her millionaire boy friend walks out on her, contending that she should. Riding a Manhattan Fifth Avenue bus and nursing the blues, she hooks another eligible male (Robert Redford) - hooks him literally, with a barbed dress catch that rips out his breast pocket. They share a snack and a movie...