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Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's late chief, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger, prefers the nickname Minnie. Her fiancé, Winston Spencer Churchill, 23, on the other hand, strenuously resists Winnie, and as anyone who has tangled with his grandfather can testify, Churchills are stubborn. Randolph's Oxford-educated son has other family traits: 1) a fondness for travel and journalism that last year sent him on a four-month tour of 40 African and Middle Eastern countries, will result in a book, First Journey, due in the U.S. in January, 2) freckles...
...BOAC, Let's Go Europe...
Compared with last year's reservations for flights from April 1 to July 1, Pan Am's bookings to Europe are up 30% and TWA's 58% . Even more spectacular is the surge in reservations for flights to the U.S.; Alitalia and BOAC both have increases of more than 100% , while Air France, SAS, KLM, Lufthansa and Swissair have gained 12% to 30% . Airline executives expect a record number of tourists to be attracted to the U.S. by the bargain fares, coinciding as they do with the opening of the New York World's Fair...
France and Britain are already far along in their $500 million program to develop their own supersonic airliner, the needle-nosed Concorde. Last week, in a surprise turnabout, the British and French state-owned airlines-BOAC and Air France-placed six orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about...
...Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 jets, which are expected to begin the new run next year. If the Japanese go along as they may if Japan airlines get reciprocal rights, the Sino-Pakistan deal would be not only a political but an economic plum: for years Western airlines, including BOAC, have tried but failed to obtain landing rights in China. In Washington, the State Department termed the air agreement "an unfortunate breach of free world solidarity." And when Under Secretary of State George Ball flies to Pakistan this week for talks with Ayub, he will make clear U.S. concern over...