Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were...
...Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a 31-year-old Air Force research pilot who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry, was named last week to fill one of two seats in a manned orbiting laboratory. He will be the nation's first Negro astronaut. Lawrence hawked newspapers on the street as a boy, worked his way through Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and became an Air Force jet instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from...
...quickly decided to keep him out of the country. Then they turned to an even graver problem-the feud between General Thieu (pronounced Choo), a phlegmatic, 44-year-old career soldier who is known as a shrewd ma- nipulator, and Air Vice-Marshal Ky, a flamboyant, 36-year-old pilot with a penchant for power...
...reason: nobody knew whether it was possible to persuade a sufficient number of men leading normal lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving 2,000 men aged 45 to 54 that it was indeed possible. The next step, said the committee, is to seek more conclusive proof by enlisting up to 100,000 men aged 40-59 in a new, $50 million study...
...years, most of the men in the pilot study lived on diets that either were low in fat, or substituted polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats wherever possible. Most started out overweight and with high blood-cholesterol levels. By adhering to the diets, despite the inconveniences and deprivations involved, most lost weight and reduced their cholesterol levels. Many also cut down on their smoking or quit altogether. Only half as many suffered heart attacks as among nondieting men of the same...