Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft in a near vacuum. "Let's try and get them on," radioed back Major William ("Pete") Knight, a fellow X-15 pilot who was monitoring Adams from the ground. Then Adams, with a curt "Yep," signaled that he was back in control...
...timing probably had nothing to do with it, but it was fitting all the same that the Air Force chose the middle of the football season to announce that Lieut. Colonel Felix Blanchard, 42, has been assigned as an F-105 pilot to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Air Base in Thailand. Two decades after he ended his rampaging career as fullback on Army's undefeated teams of 1944-46, three times making All-America, the Doc still ranks as West Point's greatest power runner. But he has also built himself a reputation...
James Dickey's notoriety is belied by his appearance. An Atlanta-born former football player, fighter pilot, and advertising writer, within the last ten years he has won prominence as one of the most provocative of American poets. But the large crowd that came to hear his Morris Gray Poetry Reading on October 25 may have been surprised to find itself faced with a solid, comfortable Southern businessman. This is what Dickey appears to be, except when his eyes glitter as he relishes the turns of his own conversation...
...known of the missionaries is Father Hugh F. Costigan, who runs the Jesuits' Ponape Agricultural and Trade School, training 160 Micronesians at a time in such basic skills as mechanics, construction and animal husbandry. Another hard-driving missionary is the Rev. Edmund Kalau, a Lutheran and onetime Luftwaffe pilot (now a U.S. citizen), who is building a youth center in his home base of Colonia featuring hobby shops, an art studio, handball and tennis courts and Micronesia's first roller-skating rink...
Meanwhile, over in Cambridge, and in other academic circles, the dilettantes of education play intellectual games and talk cleverly of cultural deprivation. They write government proposals, requesting funds for pilot programs, involving themselves in the agony of the ghetto to the same degree and with the same embarrassed caution that delicate ladies use when they dip their toes into the edges of cold or unfamiliar waters. Denying its historic role of protest, the University of Harvard stands comfortably in brick and ivy on the safe side of the Charles River, enjoying the passage of another football season, and talking politely...