Word: pilots
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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, watching the President's TV news conference, sat up when Kennedy announced four of five projected pilot food-stamp programs for needy families in distressed areas. The food-stamp plan, after all, was Humphrey's baby; he had pushed it through Congress in 1959, though Ezra Taft Benson had let it languish. But Humphrey's pleasure faded when Kennedy failed to name Minnesota as one of the food-stamp areas. The President mentioned only Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. Humphrey quickly got on the phone, found that Detroit would...
James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
...forgers' most sustained efforts followed a 1957 Khrushchev newspaper interview deploring the "dangers" of SAC's airborne alert system: "when planes with hydrogen bombs aboard take off, that means that people will be in the air piloting them. There is always the possibility of a mental blackout . . ." Shortly thereafter, the so-called "Berry letter" surfaced in East Berlin's Neues Deutschland. In it, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Frank B. Berry, was "caught" reporting to his chief, Neil McElroy, that "we have obtained statistics showing that 67.3% of U.S.A.F. personnel are psychoneurotic, involved in sexual ercesses...
Nearly 200 women have applied for admission to the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, which will begin its pilot year next Fall with 20 Associate Scholars...
Fate Is the Hunter, by Ernest K. Gann. A novelist (The High and the Mighty) and oldtime airline pilot, the author tells eloquently about the attrition of confidence, caused by too many close scrapes and too many dead comrades, that persuaded him to give up piloting...