Young pilots set records at Compton airport
Jimmy Haywood aged 11 and Kenny Roy aged 14 became the youngest Black pilots to fly internationally and solo after a three day trip from Southern California to Vancouver and back. They trained at Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum with a chaperone. Kenny earned his solo license in Canada, while Jimmy logged 10 hours each way.
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Los Angeles
Jimmy Haywood
Kenny Roy
California
Canada
Jimmy
Kenny
Compton
Woodley
Tuskeegee
Vancouver
British Columbia
United States
Cynthia Macon
Helicopter raid targets cocaine lab in Colombia
AP journalists witnessed a swift helicopter raid on a southwestern Colombia cocaine lab. Seven gunships halted above rugged coca fields, a smoke grenade marked the assault, and officers with informants deployed to seize the site as raiders cleared the area amid remote terrain and rebel presence.
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Cumbitara
Colombia
Associated Press
Col
Alvaro Velandia
Charity chiefs see pay rise outpacing inflation in 2003
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports nonprofit executives’ median pay rose to 291 356 in 2003 among 215 leaders surveyed, with a 3.7 percent rise from 2002 to 2003. Top earners included hospital chiefs Var mus 1.7 million Loop 1.7 million Pardes 1.3 million Traber 1.2 million.
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Washington
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Harold Varmus
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York
Floyd D. Loop
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Herbert Pardes
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Peter G. Traber
Baylor College of Medicine
Senate Finance
Moon Guides Coastline Trekking Ecologists Near End
Nate Olive and Sarah Jones, ecologists with the National Park Service, complete the first known continuous trek of the U.S. western coastline covering about 1800 miles. They hiked nearly 20 miles daily from June, starting at Washington's northwest tip, planning to reach the U.S.-Mexico border. The moon’s phases steered tides and paths as they endured poison oak, harsh sun, detours, and sore feet.
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San Diego
Nate Olive
U.s.-Mexico
Olive
Mexico
Sarah Jones
Washington
National Park Service
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