Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock one morning last week, just 40 hours before press time for this week's issue. TIME'S editors noted the news crackling out of Moscow and made a quick decision: the cover subject should be U.S. Pilot Francis Powers, who had landed in Russia, in the headlines, and in the middle of the cold war. Within minutes, cables and telephone calls were going out of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan to three continents with the message that the editors had put aside the cover that had been painted, printed and written, to make...
...well before dawn. In New York, National Affairs Senior Editor Louis Banks assigned Associate Editor Richard Seamon to write the story. Writer Seamon had more than a passing knowledge of Francis Powers' problems in the upper atmosphere over Russia: during World War II he was a Marine pilot assigned to a combat photomapping unit...
Sharing India's rising alarm, the Ford Foundation last week put up $10.5 million toward a $100 million Indian government pilot scheme for the reshaping of the nation's agriculture. The plan will establish model farming projects in seven scattered regions embracing 10,000 villages and 1,000,000 farmers, with the aim of raising their food production by a breathtaking 50% in five years as an example to the rest of the nation. If the scheme works and its lessons are gradually applied to other areas, India's total food grain output should rise...
...years ago, at the height of Indonesia's abortive rebellion, a black B-26 bomber roared over the port of Amboina, dropped its bombs before it was hit by antiaircraft fire. Out popped the pilot, a 31-year-old Floridian named Allen Lawrence Pope. His parachute fouled in a palm tree and he lay helpless with a broken thigh until Indonesian troops found and arrested...
...Force lieutenant who won the D.F.C. in Korea, and later became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, Pope worked himself back into top shape teaching his Indonesian guards judo, and read enough law books in prison to help conduct his own defense (he thought he was fighting international Communism, he said). But U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones publicly regretted that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting (a witness quoted Pope as saying the rebels paid him $10.000 a month for his work...