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...result, flying times will go. down on air routes all over the world. The new times: New York to Boston, 45 minutes; New York to Moscow, 16½ hours; Balboa to Buenos Aires, 14 hours. By Constellation time, no place in the world will be much over 40 hours from New York...
...South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...
Ford laid the foundation for his record-snapping stroke in Balboa, Canal Zone, improved it at Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity...
...Like Balboa. In Luxembourg, the new U.S. 17th Airborne Division and three other Third Army divisions moved up to a ridgetop road called "Skyline Drive," 1,500 feet high, whence they could look down across the Our River into Germany. It was not exactly like Balboa looking down on the Pacific. U.S. troops had been on that ridgetop before. This time they went down the other side and waded the icy river, to enter Germany at two points...
...Diego's sickbay population, around 1,000 in peacetime, had swelled to more than 9,000, with a turnover of 5,000 a month. In Balboa Park, cots 'were jammed so close together that men felt their neighbors' pains...