Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport, something-Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover what it was-went seriously wrong. Pilot James Sanders, 40, veered north from his southwest heading as he fought for control of the Connie. In the Chicago suburb of Clarendon Hills, homeowners heard a sputtering of engines overhead, then a glass-shattering roar; for a moment, some thought that there had been a nuclear explosion at the famed Argonne National Laboratory near by. But the noise was the death of Flight 529, as it crunched into the earth and skidded in flame...
...Wink's citizens determined to seek federal funds to keep the town alive. Driving to Fort Worth, they approached regional representatives of the Housing and Home Finance Agency about urban renewal funds. Government officials not only encouraged them, but also enthusiastically suggested that Wink could become a pilot project for rundown small towns across the U.S. The Wink businessmen returned home, passed zoning laws to comply with federal requirements, held the necessary referendum. Overjoyed at the prospect of reviving Wink with federal money, the town voted overwhelmingly (187-51) accept aid. Said Storekeeper G. I. Young: "Why shouldn...
...French police opened an official inquiry, Jet Pilot Captain Bernard Ziegler could only recall his plane striking "something." "Airplanes don't belong up there. Maybe people don't either," said one survivor, "but planes are as out of place as pagans in a cathedral...
...youngest general on active duty in the U.S. armed forces is Command Pilot Robert F. McDermott, 41. He was 109th in his West Point Class of 409 in 1943, won the Bronze Star and Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters flying a P-38 with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, graduated from Harvard Business School in 1950. Not long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough...
Msgr. George W. Casey, 65, is a Boston Irish Catholic who looks on the folklore of Boston Irish Catholics just about the way that a small boy with a pin looks on a cluster of balloons. In his lively column for the Pilot, weekly newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, Father Casey has lampooned South Boston's "convivial, congenital, incurable" Irish for boozing it up on St. Patrick's Day, criticized parish priests for being "tyrants," and even suggested that nuns wear modern clothes -all to howls of Hibernian protest...