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Died. Joan Merriam Smith, 28, daredevil aviatrix who last March set out to retrace the ill-fated Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan in hopes of becoming the first woman to solo around the world, despite frozen landing gear, leaky gas tanks, engine trouble and poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif...
While crossing a Philadelphia street a year ago, Amelia Hutson, 24, mother of six, was hit by a car. She suffered a broken right leg and left thigh. At Temple University Hospital she got a one-pint transfusion of blood that seemed to match hers by all the usual tests, and she appeared to have no adverse reaction. One week later, though, the surgeons wanted more blood to use in an operation on Mrs. Hutson's thigh. And then Dr. Lyndall Molthan, head of Temple's blood bank, made a surprising discovery: she could no longer match...
...Command-Aire biplane, took the stick himself by the time he was six. As a teenager, he worked odd jobs around the Shawnee airport to pay for lessons in a J-3 Piper Cub trainer. He was inspired, in part, by stories his father told about two famed acquaintances, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Gordo soloed "officially," he now recalls with a grin...
Today, Queiroz' controversial work seems too gothic in spots: at the book's close, for example, Amelia dies in childbirth, and Amaro arranges to have the baby murdered by an obliging nurse. Yet Queiroz is a prose master whose message wears better than most 19th century literary reformers. He is not simple-minded enough to believe that Rome is the root of all evil. His churchmen are protected by organized ecclesiastical hypocrisy, but their depravity is all their own. Queiroz' ultimate target is no single human institution but human nature itself...
Love of God and lust soon become hopelessly intermingled. Because Amaro is her spiritual guide as well as her lover, Amelia comes to exist in a kind of circu lar spiritual slavery. "Her judgments now came already formed from the priest's brain . . . She lived with her eyes on him in animal obedience; all she had to do was bow her head when he spoke and when the moment came, let down her skirts...