Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...textbooks, stormed into meetings of the all-male city council, journeyed to Denver to seek advice from Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols. Though Walsenburg had never before elected a woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited women volunteers to ring doorbells, pilot sound trucks up and down the streets, and haul voters to the polls in cars and station wagons. Mrs. Betty Kalmes, 34, echoed an old Chinese proverb:-"We decided it was better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness...
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...Pilot Francis Gary Powers began to describe his part in one of history's most celebrated-and. until his mishap, most successful-espionage operations...
...science's swift-moving state, the present achievements of the Xis are but a prelude to what is expected of it when it is outfitted with new high-powered rocket engines this fall. Says Test Pilot White exultantly: "I would have no qualms about going higher...
Sylvania's passengers quickly volunteered; 65, many of them students off to tour Canada, were hired as stewards, stewardesses, waiters and kitchen hands. Among them was the Rev. Alan Greene, 70, a master mariner who used to pilot his own Anglican missionary ship along Canada's west coast. As he reported for work, towel over his arm, he quipped: "What a life! From ship's captain to dumb waiter...