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First hydrofoil craft to enter regular commuter service in the U.S. is the good ship Albatross, which last week made her maiden voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
Except the Albatross. Her extruded aluminum foils lifted the hull several feet above the waves, her speed crept up to 32 m.p.h., and she went winging across the surface of Long Island Sound like the hydrodynamic sea bird she is. Then-shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...
...fledgling Domestic Peace Corps, just beginning to tackle the juvenile delinquency problem, now finds the Powell problem hanging around its neck like a rather weighty albatross. Because of its affiliations with the Congressman-clergyman, the Corps has been attacked in Congress, condemned by much of the press, and defended by almost...
...science; Pascal and Maxwell give way to Bohm, Schrodinger, and Charles Darwin A long and careful piece on Einstein near the end of the first volume signals the shift from traditional to contemporary concerns. At the close of the second is a melange of little treatises on comets, albatross and so forth, which will be read by anyone who has enjoyed what came before...
...Albatross is the name of the flying machine, and its master is Robur (Vincent Price), a mysterious neo-Nemo who calls himself "a citizen of the world" and grandly declares "war against war." In short order he destroys the British fleet and breaks up a battle in North Africa, but in the end, of course, Robur suffers the fate that Hollywood perennially reserves for those whose means are evil though their ends be good, and the world goes happily back to war. The paper-airplane crowd may find the ethics of the film a bit confusing, but they are bound...