Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Stratocruiser Flight 943 winged smoothly through the night sky, confident in its aloneness, all but oblivious to the black Pacific four miles below. It was 3:20 a.m., and inside the cabin, each of the 31 passengers sought sleep according to his station-first-class passengers in berths, tourist passengers scrunched up in reclining seats. Suddenly a shrieking squeal drowned the silence, and the airplane swooped roughly. The passengers bolted awake. "Ladies and gentlemen," crackled the cabin loudspeaker, "this is Captain Ogg. We have an emergency. Our No.1 engine is uncontrolled. A ditching at sea is likely. We have...
...Janette Ross, 17, who spent most of her childhood in an isolated log cabin in the wilds around Anchorage, Alaska. Her father is a fisherman and trapper, and Janette got most of her early schooling through correspondence courses from Baltimore's Calvert School. Now enrolled at Oregon's Lewis and Clark College, she hopes some day to become an author...
Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past...
...EXECUTIVE PLANE, first U.S. four-engined transport designed specifically for business flying, will be produced by Cessna Aircraft. Now being test-flown, Cessna's new Model 620 will seat up to nine passengers in fully pressurized cabin, will have 260 m.p.h. cruising speed, and range of 1,700 miles. Price tag, for 1958 delivery...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...