Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
While this year's Harmon International Aviator's Trophy honoring "the world's outstanding pilot" predictably went to a team of X-15 jockeys - Test Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White -the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris...
...Pilot-to-be John D. Sullivan Jr., 21, is top cadet in a class of 217 at the U.S. Air Academy. Son of a retired druggist in Worcester, Mass., Sullivan was appointed in 1957 by U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. In four years he completed 205½ semester hours, compared with the national college average of 124. He was top man in basic sciences, electrical engineering, military studies, social sciences and overall academic achievement. Sullivan hopes to fly for SAC, then study science in graduate school and some day teach at the academy. Said he happily last week: "Today...
...college is a social unit as well as a number of individuals, and a pilot program like Soph Standing cannot change an entire college. As a result, the danger of creating an elite or an underpriviliged minority is as important as the objective merits a program might have if made universal. This is one of the crucial issues that has been missed in abstracted discussions of three and four year programs, as in the argument that, with pure logic, asks why, if four years it better than three, five should not be the best solution of all. The process...
Just as a pilot program must work in the context of the older structure, a new program must be developed from the status quo. In retrospect, it has become quite clear that giving Sophomore Standing students all of the privileges of Sophomores was unrealistic and unnecessary, and attracted students who might have very little legitimate reason for accelerating. But at the time, the simple elimination of one year was the least revolutionary way of shortening the college years, for it called fewer principles into question than any total rearrangement might have done...