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...defense against hijacking would be the installation of a button in the cockpit that when pressed by the pilot would spray a harmless gas throughout the cabin, putting everyone to sleep. On landing, the good and the bad could be sorted out. All that is needed is a gas mask for the pilot. Helen Smith Far Hills, N.J. Accusing the Press...
...occasion, however, something goes wrong, and a fortnight ago it did. In Niagara Falls, Lieut. Commander Robert Michael Gershon, 32, was piloting his Skyhawk through a stunt called the opposing blivot, in which two planes approach head on, then, as they come within 200 ft. of each other, go into steep climbs. At the peak of the stunt, the pilots pull out of a 6,000-ft.-high loop, point their planes downward and crisscross paths at a 45° angle. It was during that precisely timed climax that Gershon's plane and another A-4 collided. The pilot...
...bombing raid you can lose your life," said retired Air Force Major General Richard Collins, a former Viet Nam combat pilot. "All you can lose in this courtroom is your reputation." But the two-star general's honor remained intact last week, when a Florida jury acquitted him on federal charges of embezzling money from a secret military fund that he administered in 1975-78. The Justice Department had accused Collins, 55, of tampering with the interest on $450,000 in U.S. Government money while he transferred the sum from one Swiss bank account to another. The jury rejected...
After Congress declared war in 1917, Roosevelt decried the War Department’s lack of preparation. He had already started to think about the 1920 nomination when his youngest son, Quentin, a pilot, was killed during an aerial fight with the Germans. Six months later, Roosevelt himself suffered a fatal blood clot. He never regained the coveted office that he left...
...December, HUL and Google began a joint venture to digitize some 40,000 volumes held in Harvard’s collections. Following successful completion of the pilot program, all 15 million volumes held in Harvard’s libraries could eventually be digitized. The news was greeted with excitement and support throughout the academic community. Digitization, after all, offers a means of dissolving the physical barriers of library walls and book covers; with digitization, a field researcher in Mongolia could have the entire Widener Library collection at his fingertips. The concept represents the ultimate realization of the Internet?...