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Getting Some Air. At week's end, with no Soviet attack materializing out of the intelligence jigsaw puzzle, the President ducked out of the White House for a breather. In his twin-engined Aero Commander he flew to his farm at Gettysburg, donned a brown-and-black-checked cap, a hip-length windbreaker and heavy leather boots, and puttered about in the crisp fall weather "to get some air." Happily he inspected his 20 head of cattle and chatted with the neighbors who accompanied him. ("She's a pip! . . . We ought to hold on to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Man In Charge | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Flew out of Washington at week's end in his twin-engined Aero Commander to join Mamie at their Gettysburg farm, then to play 27 holes of golf-his first 27-hole round since the day before his heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hopes & Prayers | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...last week's Chicago meeting of the Aero Medical Association, the Navy and Douglas Aircraft Co. described their solution to the high-speed bail-out problem: a detachable cockpit. It would form the whole nose of the airplane and would contain all the expensive instruments and electronic gadgets, which are nice to salvage along with the pilot. It would also be standardized, so that the same cockpit would fit the bodies of many different airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Capsule Cockpit | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...campaign tour of western Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson left Minneapolis in a Beechcraft Twin-Bonanza, followed by his entourage distributed among an Aero Commander, a Beechcraft Bonanza and a Cessna 180. Two mornings later, a Stratoliner landed at Minneapolis with Estes Kefauver, his right hand black and blue from handshaking in New Hampshire, the Granite State. It was the first time during the young campaign that the two leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have been in the same state at the same time. In their contest for the March 20 Minnesota primary, Stevenson flew high last week; Kefauver never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The High & Low Roads | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...York-Pittsburgh run, the Aero-train almost pulled a coupling apart 75 miles out of Manhattan, forced the engineer to limp into Philadelphia, where the passengers were transferred to an old-style train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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