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Early one morning last week a Swissair DC-6B set down ten miles from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...
...time Nixon's second tour ended, some of the reporters who had started out openly hostile had a new impression. Riding in his United Air Lines DC-6B, the "Dick Nixon Special," they were astonished by the thoroughness and efficiency of the operation.* At the back of the aircraft there was a private cabin serving as the candidate's office; there was also a work area, with typewriters and a duplicating machine, for his staff. At times the staff numbered 13, including two secretaries, two press aides, a tour manager and a doctor. A corps of advance...
Back in Washington this week, worn by his long vigil at the bedside of his dying father (see MILESTONES), Nixon was preparing to launch probably the most strenuous political campaign any Republican has ever waged. Flying in a chartered DC-6B, accompanied by his wife and a four-man staff, he will travel 14,136 miles, visit 32 states, make 50 speeches in three weeks. What he learns on this swing will do much to determine the size and shape of the Republican campaign during October and the first week in November...
...were leaving the restaurant, the Grahams overheard someone saying that a plane had crashed. Unable to get any detailed information at the airport, they drove home. The radio confirmed their apprehensions: Flight 629 had crashed 32 miles north of Denver. Mrs. King and all 43 others aboard the DC-6B were dead. "We finally heard his mother's name on the radio," Gloria reported, "and Jack just collapsed completely...
FIRST NONSTOP DC-6B aircoach flights between Los Angeles and New York were started last week by North American Airlines, biggest (1953 revenue: $10 million) nonscheduled passenger carrier. North American (no kin to American Airlines or North American Aviation, Inc.) has bought two 307-m.p.h. Douglas DC-6Bs, will use them to replace older DC-4s in daily service. Round-trip fare: $160 v, $198 for scheduled (American, United, T.W.A.) aircoach service to the West Coast...