Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Program. At his press conference, the President announced the establishment of a pilot program, by executive order, financed by unallocated foreign aid funds and directed by his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver. Simultaneously he sent a special message to Congress, asking for legislation to organize the corps on a permanent basis under the supervision of the State Department. "This corps," he said, "will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private institutions and organizations to help foreign governments meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower...
Labaree has suggested that a pilot project should be set up next year, using one small portion of the Yard. This will almost certainly not be done unless someone gets on the ball very fast. Unless the existence of the present freshman year is to become an argument against any program that has not gathered dust for a few years, Labaree's proposal deserves either a trial or a detailed rebuttal. Fish or cut bait...
...present proposal is accepted, it will serve as a pilot for an expanded program which might eventually include volunteer work in New York's Harlem, in Pueblo villages in New Mexico, and possibly with migrant laborers, tenant farmers, and share croppers...
...bomber overflew Burma, apparently trying to drop supplies to the fleeing Kuomintang forces. Burmese fighters attacked it, and it crashed over the border in Thailand. But in the course of the battle, one Burmese fighter was shot down, another damaged. The Burmese government brought the body of the dead pilot back to Rangoon for ceremonial burial. Burma sent off a protest...
FLIGHT-ENGINEER STRIKE grounded hundreds of U.S. airline passengers. Though airlines hoped to get engineers back to work under 60-day Presidential mediation plan, strike is only first trouble for carriers as result of showdown fight between 3,500 engineers' union and Air Lines Pilot Association. National Mediation Board ordered engineers to merge with pilots' union, which engineers fear will cost them jobs...