Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda broadside. At an airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 reconnaissance plane with a Nationalist Chinese pilot at the controls soars off the runway, bound for skies 15 miles above Red China on a photographic mission...
...Pilot Program. The President urged that payments to the three million children who now receive social security - because the family breadwinner has died, retired or is disabled - be increased by an average 15%, at a cost of $350 million. Average benefits now, he noted, are only $52 a month. He also proposed a pilot program to ensure that 100,000 children in poverty areas can visit a dentist and 500,000 be examined by a doctor in the next year. To take care of the babies that are yet to be born, Johnson asked for legislation authorizing ten pilot centers...
...affaires at the Yemeni embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
Lots of people, I suspect, could find The Lost Pilot a bridge into modern poetry. You should probably read it today. You could read most of it in two hours. Suffering succotash, you could read most of it twice in four hours, three times in six hours...
...stockholders. His Centennial Fund drew 191 investors, who pooled securities worth $25,800,000. Berger's idea has been widely copied. Boston's Vance, Sanders & Co. operates four funds currently worth $311.2 million. Pittsburgh Fund Manager John F. Donahue, 42, a West Point graduate and onetime SAC pilot, will, with six new funds registered before the cutoff date, soon be overseeing 13 swaps with a total of $500 million in them...