Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young man in Paris gradually turns into a salamander. An elegant young girl crosses a bridge in Budapest and becomes an aged crone in the process. A motorcyclist, after skidding into a curb, finds himself lashed to an Aztec altar as a priest approaches with a knife. The nastiest member of an Argentine family walks into the wrong room and is eaten by a tiger...
...Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera in Rio, and took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec in which he was flying collided with a jet training plane in the northeastern state of Ceara killing Castello, his brother and three others, including the pilot...
...Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that flight, his passenger...
...flying itself." To New York Real Estate Broker Edward Cowen, such a trip offers "both pleasure and challenge," but there is no question in his mind that "the whole thing is dangerous." Says Earl Howard of Ames, Iowa, who, with his wife as copilot, flew his twin-engine Piper Aztec to a Rotary International convention in Nice this year: "If cost is a problem, I'd suggest forgetting a trip like this. But if you get as much satisfaction from it as we did, it's worth every cent...
...once a flying vacationer is willing to assume the high risks and costs, there is nothing to compare with the experience. Says Stockton, Calif., Industrialist Herman P. Miller, who has flown his Piper Aztec across both the Atlantic and the Pacific: "By the time I land, I know more about the terrain, the agriculture, the roads, the housing than most of the people who live there. I've got an education before I even touch the ground...