Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Bruce Van Voorst/Washington
...also revoked the pilot's license of Chairman John Van Arsdale Jr. He. was charged with failing to land a plane promptly after it developed troubles in its hydraulic controls. Van Arsdale, who has resigned, was replaced by Edwin Putzell, a retired lawyer and PBA board member. "I'm so shocked right now," Van Arsdale said. "I just can't believe it's happening. We had offered to cooperate with [the FAA] in any way they wanted...
This is the first major setback for PBA, which was founded in 1949 by Van Arsdale's father. He started out with flights in a four-seater plane from Boston to Provincetown, a resort community on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Three years later he opened up a Florida operation, based in Naples, to keep his planes busy during the winter. In 1980 Van Arsdale retired and turned over the successful company to his sons John, 40, and Peter, 36, who is currently president. The two siblings took off on an ambitious growth program that has expanded...
Upon submitting his senior thesis in April 1943, an elated Harold F. Van Ummerson 44 ran down to the Harvard radio station, inspired to do something unusual. For the next three hours, he played all of Beethoven's symphonies in numerical order, changing the 78 RPM records every three or four minutes...
Early the next morning, Van Ummerson left the station and walked down to the Charles River, where he threw a copy of the inspirational thesis off a bridge...