Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From this zoo, Goodman selects the Beats as a pilot study in the uses of leisure. "Their rejection of the popular culture, Broadway theatre, status commodities, bespeaks robust mental health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning...
...investigation. He had good reason: Eastern's Flight 375 was the fifth Electra crash since the big four-engined turboprop planes went into service two years ago, and it was he who had opposed grounding 140 still flying. At least two of the crashes could be charged to pilot error, but study of others-mid-air disintegration over Indiana and Texas-had disclosed serious structural flaws. Weak ened outboard engine nacelles tended to vibrate at high speeds in turbulent air, their intense flutter could destroy a wing. The Civil Aeronautics Board and some quick-tempered politicians had demanded grounding...
...igth century origins as shipping news and commercial circulars. But that year a fiery young Nigerian named Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe returned from the U.S., where he had studied political science and journalism at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and founded a new daily in Lagos, the West African Pilot...
...somnolent past. As Premier of Nigeria's Eastern Region, Zik aspired to lead the way to national independence-and to become free Nigeria's first Premier. So in the Western Region did rival Premier Obafemia Awolowo. Their press became their weapon: with Zik's Pilot expanded to five papers, and with a ten-paper group owned and controlled by Awolowo's Action Group party, Nigerians were treated to the regular spectacle of Awolowo and Zik slugging it out fiercely and brightly on their front pages...
...Ghost Pilot. Under the new deal TWA will be controlled by three trustees, two representing the lenders and one Hughes, until Hughes pays off the debt. TWA is used to operating with a ghost pilot, has been without a president and chief executive for over two months since ex-Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas resigned. In two years as TWA boss, Thomas revamped the ailing airline's management, slashed operating costs, turned a $1,764,000 deficit the year he took over into profits of $9,400,000 in 1959. When Hughes first went looking for loan money...