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Down by three with less than a minute to play, Harvard edged to within a point on Eric Gustavson's layup. On the ensuing pass-in, 10 seconds from the final buzzer, Bobby Johnson soared aloft for a steal...
Whatever the destination, the flight alone is often memorable. Consider the Sky Roamers, bound from La Guardia in their DC-7 for the Super Bowl. Their trip started off like many a commercial flight-that is, an hour behind schedule. But once aloft, the pace quickened. Glad-handers jammed the aisle. Miniskirted stewardesses squirmed through, bearing trays of drinks (none of that two-to-a-customer routine here) and sandwiches. Shoes were shucked...
...jammed largely because private pilots have as much freedom to fly when and where they please as motorists have to drive on their choice of roads. Airlines are assigned routes by the Government but make their own time schedules. The 2,379 commercial planes spent 6,000,000 hours aloft last year and 150,000 hours waiting to take off or land, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which figures that U.S. passengers wasted 10 million man-hours just waiting (see box). Some of this congestion was caused by the 32,-310 military aircraft and some by the airliners themselves...
...Rank Aloft. A ser viceman becomes eligible for R & R after 90 days in Viet Nam, but he is encouraged to take it after six months so that it will break his one-year tour in half...
...enemy sharpshooters and are virtually impossible to protect with jet or conventional prop planes. In demonstrating how it could do the job, Lockheed's Cheyenne rolled down the runway at 50 m.p.h., stopped, reversed direction, then did a series of intricate ground maneuvers before lifting itself 10 ft. aloft and hovering in that position. Extending and retracting its landing gear, the craft climbed to 30 ft. and, in helicopter fashion, backed up in the air. Test Pilot Don Segner then gave the plane's single turbine engine the throttle, and the 55-ft.-long craft raced above...