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...ordering Secretary Dulles to fly to London for the talks, President Eisenhower hoped to settle a snag in the Western presentation of its case. Western Europeans do not want their territories open for Soviet aerial inspection unless the U.S. is inspected too. On the other hand, they would resent an arrangement which set up inspection zones exclusively on U.S. and Soviet territory, leaving Europe out. Dulles' mission is to resolve just what segment of the world's horizon is to be offered to the Russians as an "open...
...main problem is an almost complete dependence on a fleet of 188 low-capacity Douglas DC-35, the 21-year-old aerial workhorses that no longer pay their way no matter how efficiently they are operated. San Francisco's cos-t-conscious Southwest Airways has cut ground stops to only 120 seconds, but maintenance and operating costs keep going up. "A spare part that used to cost maybe 80^," explains one airline man, "runs about $5 now, and has to be specially made." Even if the feeders, which operate with an average load factor of 45%, could boost their...
...picture side of the story, McCulloch called in Los Angeles Photographer John Bryson, onetime LIFE correspondent. Cameraman Bryson took a twelve-hour, high-altitude aircrew course and a high-altitude chamber test to prepare for aerial shots, and set up an elaborate weather-warning system so he would get the word as soon as a rare clear day began to dawn. For three months Bryson matched guesses with the Weather Bureau, peered disconsolately through smog, cruised 1,668 miles by car, flew uncounted thousands of miles more in prop planes, jets and helicopters (at times dangling out of the belly...
...allies about some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...
Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...