Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than one flight of stairs to seek out new voters. But despite the bosses' roadblocks, Thompson's raiders have done a good job. Some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs. In Baltimore, Thompson's pilot city, 7,000 "unsuspected Democrats" have been uncovered. In Pennsylvania, registered Democrats exceed Republicans, 2,851,000 to 2,812,000, for the first time in recent years. Tabulating the national returns last week, Bobby Kennedy gleefully noted that 8.500,000 new voters (65% Democratic) had registered already, and the hoped...
Colleges are in most cases best equipped to develop patterns for talent-hunting in their own neighborhoods, Monro said. "If we could get a dozen colleges rolling on this, we would have the makings of a pilot program," he commented. At present, organizations like NSSFNS seek out promising students and negotiate with college admissions officers...
...implicit suggestion that foreign aircraft flying high enough could cruise over Soviet territory almost at will, as they had for nearly four years. U.S. experts doubt the Russian claim that the U-2 was blasted from the sky at 68.000 ft., suspect from U.S. radar evidence that Pilot Francis Powers' jet engine simply flamed out in midpassage. At his Moscow trial, Powers was fuzzy on the point, and his father later hinted that Powers himself doubted he was shot down...
Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...cabin of their chartered Convair was carefully stocked with smelling salts and tranquilizers, the engines were checked and the tanks were topped off. The travelers were ready to go. Then someone realized that they had not alerted the pilot. That little matter attended to, Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank...