Bob,
It would not be surprising, though I don't personally know of any, but it was that same time period they were sending us pilots that weren't good enough to get through flight school, and their records were stamped in large red letters "COPILOT ONLY". They just wanted us to have a warm body to put in the seat. We received 2 of these wonderful guys in 1970. It didn't take long to realize why they couldn't make it through school.
Shoofly