Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafters hail it as a "civilizing influence on the Army," some of De Gaulle's military colleagues were not so elated. Retired Air Force General Pierre Gallois suggested that the new provisions are fine but not "for soldiers at war." Another veteran officer imagined a situation where "a pilot of a Mirage IV [French nuclear bomber] receives an order to throw his bomb on Square 88, refuses until he has a guarantee that in his sector is neither a school, a hospital or a church...
...well ahead of the Americans, who now have no 12-meter boats in the water, although they have nominated two possible cup defenders. One, the 1958 winner Columbia, is undergoing "extreme alterations" in San Diego. The other: Intrepid, which will be skippered by Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, the victorious pilot of 1962, will not be launched until April. Intrepid was designed by Olin Stephens, creator of Columbia and of the 1964 winner Constellation. In a pinch, Constellation might get a second call. Though she is now owned by The Netherlands' Pierre Goemans, she has been leased as a "trial horse...
...Tsavo National Park. In the rolling bushland below grazed herds of zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of an egret, constant companion of the African elephant. It was what the pilot had been looking for. He radioed the position to the ground, and within minutes a helicopter arrived. Two white hunters climbed out and disappeared into the tangle of thorn trees. There was a burst of high-powered rifle shots, a flutter of startled egrets. The hunters reappeared. Behind them...
...hippo and nearly 2,000 elephants. Zambia and Rhodesia have hired white hunters to kill as many as 10,000 buffalo and hippo. In Kenya, where authorities at first feared that mass elephant slaughters might frighten the rest of the game out of the reserves, a month-long pilot hunt proved so successful that the government is now taking bids for the killing of thousands of elephants. Its primary stipulation: that the hunters destroy entire family units, leaving no orphans to disturb the survivors. As in the rest of East Africa, they must also make some provision for disposing...
...what it meant to the people who were caught up in it. By and large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman at Dunkirk and a U.S. Marine sergeant on Guam. By far the best value is found in the 720 pictures (92 in color), which capture the events from the Treaty of Versailles to the rise of Hitler to the Japanese surrender on the deck...