Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's Peace Corps. They had hoped to receive some 15,000 applications by the end of May, when entrance examinations will be held in 330 U.S. cities. Then, after a rigorous screening, they would be able to enlist 1,000 corpsmen-just enough for a first-year pilot program. Now, faced with the prospect of obtaining far less than 1,000 acceptable corpsmen, Peace Corps officials may lower entrance requirements, cut back or stretch out programs planned for work-fertile areas...
...Pilot Light. The faculty rebelled in 1946, got the trustees to "elevate" Von KleinSmid to chancellor, which he still is. His successor, President Fred Fagg Jr., was popular, but he resigned in discouragement after U.S.C. stood still in the postwar decade that transformed most universities. U.S.C, was so dormant that in 1955, when it grandly announced a drive for $75 million, the plan never really got off the ground...
...plan has a better chance, thanks to Fagg's able successor, Physician Topping, 53, former vice president of the University of Pennsylvania. In his 2½ years. President Topping has relit the pilot light. Under way are 1,000 research projects. Already moving into the trimester system, the school has a new $660,000 Ford grant to speed up teacher training by one year. Football is played down, and U.S.C. is actually recruiting bright students...
...pilots who handle these hardy planes are called "rough riders." Says Rough Rider Air Force Major John J. Knight, an F106 pilot: "Every time I approach a storm I wonder how rough this one is going to be. You know it is going to be rough, but you don't know how rough. And once you're inside you're so busy you can't think of anything else. You don't horse the controls around. You have to believe your instruments. In those things you can't fly by the seat of your...
...that the U.S. should switch to something like the British system comes as "a startling, radical or dangerous idea." Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger opposes it. But the A.B.A.-A.M.A. joint committee-while flatly against anything like "indiscriminate distribution" of narcotics-recommends trying something like the British system on a pilot-plant basis. This would be an "outpatient facility, on a controlled, experimental basis." For a site, the committee suggests the District of Columbia, "being an exclusively federal jurisdiction and immediately accessible to both law-enforcement and public health agencies"-and, it might have added, an adequate supply of addicts...