Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spurred Ed Link to invent his first trainer more than 30 years ago while working in his father's piano-and-organ factory in Binghamton, N.Y. Link, whose hobby was flying, saw the need for a training device that would prepare flyers for flying before they had to take a real plane into the air. He and his brother George put together a plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour for in-the-air flight instruction). But no one paid much attention to the trainer until...
Exploring the Sea. The biggest chunk of the company's sales comes from its avionics subsidiaries. The hottest new product: a 2-cu.-ft. black box (Hidan), that enables a pilot in a plane to know exactly where he is at all times. With it, pilots can take off from any airport in the U.S. and fly to another, guided only by the signals from the black...
...plain Sicilians, such legends are not old wives' tales but part of everyday life -along with Christian miracles, Saracen tales of derring-do, and glittering fantasies of the U.S. way of life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making...
...Force ROTC cadets will be able to take advantage of a greatly lightened ROTC curriculum now required, Lt. Col. Richard C. Brock, the new professor of Air Science, announced recently...
...freshman year, students will take a lower-level Nat Sci course, preferably 2, 3, or 9. In addition, they will attend afternoon drill periods during the fall and spring. There will be no drills or Air Science courses during the winter, and students can also take lab courses instead...