Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plight of Pilot Powers...
...flight was no crime, but the education, mind and values of its pilot were revealed to be very shallow indeed. If Powers is an accurate representation of the 1960 American, isn't it our country itself that needs praying...
Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...Obnoxious." By Northern standards both papers are conservative. But by Southern standards the Pilot is downright liberal, and the Ledger-Dispatch is at best middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark...
...vast and alluring is the potential of the optical scanner that Farrington's competitors are doubling their efforts to bring out their own scanners. IBM is testing several models, and RCA will soon field-test a pilot model to handle subscriptions at a major publishing house. Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. has its first orders for optical readers from major oil Companies. National Data Processing