Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down. Few ever did. A man of both vision and vigor who honed his boyhood interest in aviation as a Navy pilot during World War I, New Jersey-born Trippe ruled his airline with a firm hand. After establishing Pan Am as the first carrier to offer regular international service, he engaged in what amounted to a one-man diplomatic mission in order to negotiate landing rights in South America. In the 1930s, with his line's South American routes already well established, he became the first to introduce scheduled airline service across both the Pacific and the Atlantic...
...indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio last year (dead: 38) and has pointed to managerial sloppiness as the real root of a Frontier Airlines crash in Colorado in which the pilot and copilot, the plane's only occupants, died. At week's end, the safety board dispatched a special team to Texas to investigate the crash of a Braniff International Electra, with 84 aboard, during a heavy thunderstorm...
...federally aided "Experimental City" being planned by Geophysicist Athelstan Spilhaus, president of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, who dreams of solving the pollution problem by dispersing millions of Americans into brand-new cities limited to perhaps 250,000 people on 2,500 acres of now vacant land. The pilot city, to be built by a quasi-public corporation, will try everything from reusable buildings to underground factories and horizontal elevators to eliminate air-burning cars and buses. The goal is a completely recycled, noise-free, pureair city surrounded by as many as 40,000 acres of insulating open countryside...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was not half so impressed. Along with nearly a thousand other large and small military facilities, Springfield was ordered closed as an economy move; its weapons development and pilot production were to be turned over to other, armories or private companies. Last week with a symbolic burst from four M-14 rifles, one of the last weapons developed at the armory, McNamara's order went into effect...
Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...