Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever black puffs of antiaircraft fire blossomed above the horizon, crowds clinging precariously to trucks careened off towards the action, hoping to see a captured Israeli pilot. Radio Cairo reported that one downed pilot had pulled his pistol to threaten a band of fellahin in the delta town of Zagazig; the fellahin chopped him to pieces with their field axes. As night fell, thousands of youth volunteers, self-consciously aware of their new authority, poured into the streets to enforce a complete blackout on the capital...
Died. Major Edward G. Givens, 37, Air Force test pilot and one of 19 new astronauts selected last year, who was assigned as project officer in the development of a jet-powered backpack for maneuvering on space walks; of injuries suffered when the Volkswagen he was driving crashed near Houston...
...Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post of unified commander...
...have crumbled before the female onslaught. In Cambridge, Mass., tall, slender Deanne Siemer, 26, was elected president of the Harvard Law School's Legal Aid Bureau, the first woman ever to head one of Harvard's three legal honor societies. But why not? Deanne is a licensed pilot, a crack skier (she barely missed the 1960 Olympic team) and a pretty sharp lawyer, having won all ten of her cases so far for the Legal Aid Bureau, which represents indigents in civil cases involving less than...
...story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms off a series of star suspects, including Lillian Gish as a septuagenarian lapdog lover, Eleanor Parker as a merry widow whose idea of mourning is martinis with black olives, and George Grizzard as a womanizing airline pilot...