Word: pilots
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Wyoming, Washington. California, the Midwest and Alaska-not with too much hope of winning Alaska's three electoral votes, but to keep his acceptance-speech promise to campaign in all 50 states. In Wyoming, to keep this promise, the pilot of his chartered Boeing 707 had to land in a snowstorm. Nixon, buoyed by Ike's support, told-his audiences that he felt a "tide"' running in his direction, promised "one of the greatest victories in terms of electoral votes in the history of America.'' Increasing the cutting edge of his adjectives, he punched hard...
...While Bowling Green mangled Cal Poly 50-6, the chartered C46 flew on to ferry the Youngstown University squad to New Haven. Conn., then turned back to take Cal Poly home. At take-off time, Toledo airport was socked in solid with fog. Brent Jobe, an end and student pilot, told his friends that he thought it was crazy to take off. Head Coach Leroy Hughes talked worriedly to the copilot. But Pilot Donald Leland...
...more unsettling incident was the discovery, near Fort Wayne, Ind., that a piece of an old electric transformer had been tied to the railroad tracks on Nixon's route; had it not been found in time by an advance pilot train, it could have caused a serious derailment. Trainmen reported having found similar objects on the tracks in that area several times in the past, blamed misguided pranksters...
...Dayton's Air Force Museum, the nation's first military pilot, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 80, took a nostalgic look at the 1909 Wright Flyer, then climbed aboard the open-air, pusher-propellered crate. With him was an old colleague, retired Lieut. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, 83, who in 1910 made the first powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first...
...Ford, runner-up in the L.I. Raven championships this summer, will pilot hopes for the Lt. Lawrence A. White Trophy, symbol of the championship, five others schools, in a two day series at New London. In the eliminations weeks ago, Ford literally salled away with everything, his 34-ft. Raven winning by a large margin...