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...cost him a leg; when he was only 21, and without a pilot's license, he took his turn at the controls of a light plane in an unprecedented 10,000-mile flight from Bombay to Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety of a tree platform. In World War II, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion; after France fell he joined the British forces and served as a liaison officer with the U.S. Sixth Army group, winning the French Legion of Honor...
Engineers from Lockheed last week were examining two other mysterious mishaps: the midair disintegration of two turboprop Electras-over Buffalo, Texas, and Tell City, Ind.-at a cost of 97 lives. In one of the biggest and most expensive (estimated cost to all participants, including F.A.A. and the airlines: $25 million) test programs in aviation history, Lockheed has placed an entire airplane in a huge mechanical jig, is literally shaking it to test its vibration tolerances. A whole wing section complete with engines has been taken off the production line, is being twisted and bent to destruction to check...
...pushing its debt too high, expanding without careful study, Capital has been in competitive trouble for years and usually looked to CAB for help. The last time was in 1958, when CAB bailed out Capital by giving the line access to the lucrative Florida market, with a run from Buffalo. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, to Jacksonville and beyond. Object of the move: to keep Capital off subsidy for all time. Yet the line could not make the long-haul run pay off. Its year-round traffic estimates were too optimistic: its stations in four Florida cities cost more than they were worth...
...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
...Heartened by reports from the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where International Telemeter Corp. is trying toll television (TIME, March 14) in competition with three regular channels from Buffalo and two from Toronto, Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., in association with RKO General, is asking the FCC for permission to make a similar test in Hartford...