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...books, those of his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and of his earlier biographers, the question remains: was Lindbergh ever truly at home anywhere but in a plane? Aloft, he was Lucky Lindy, the lanky youth who thrilled the county-fair set in his battered Jenny, the daredevil airmail pilot and, of course, that shy all-American who put the world into a barrel roll with his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic...
Died. Reuben H. Fleet, 88, aviation pioneer who in 1918 ran the Army's first airmail service between New York and Washington, and in 1923 founded the forerunner of Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp., which built B-24 bombers used during World War II; of injuries from a fall; in San Diego...
...airlines from flying the same international routes at the same time, and both the State Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board will investigate whether foreign lines are flying more flights to and from the U.S. than is permitted in international agreements. Ford will also consider raising the international airmail fees paid to U.S. carriers. (Currently, foreign carriers demand and get as much as five times what U.S. airlines collect for carrying U.S. overseas mail.) Further, the Commerce Department will promote a "Fly U.S. Flag Airlines" campaign...
...These days, however, even that pace is frequently faster than the Italian mails. Take E. Paul Getty II's severed ear: when his kidnapers mailed it from Naples last fall, it took 20 days to arrive in Rome-and that was a brisk delivery by Italian standards. Some airmail Christmas cards from New York arrived at Easter time, and letters wending their way from one Italian city to another sometimes take a leisurely six months...
...many are deskbound and inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...