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...York to Hawaii and the Orient. Passenger stopover privileges on these flights, now limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles, could be expanded to other West Coast cities. All of which would put Pan Am on a better footing with its main Pacific rivals: Qantas, Japan Air Lines and BOAC...
...reliable supporter. In one breathtaking column for the Review, he managed to equate Henry Ford's divorce with the suicides of Publisher Philip Graham and Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler's keeper. All were men, wrote Buckley "wanting in the stuff of spiritual survival." Ford yanked its advertising. BOAC, on the other hand, is one of the Review's most faithful advertisers. Muses Buckley: "Maybe only a state-owned airline can afford to advertise in National Review...
...Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal-were talking to each other. After agreeing to end their five-year war in Yemen, Nasser unfroze more...
...London journalist, Williams writes as if he knows London. If so, those in search of a really swinging scene might just as well cancel that BOAC flight and book seats instead for Katmandu-or even Kansas City...
...took sides on Lord Coal's role. In an editorial headlined "A Damning Indictment," the London Financial Times argued for what it called "the honorable tradition that whenever a disaster occurs the man in command should go." Not so, snapped Sir Miles Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B...