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...president of United Air Lines. "I work hard," says Keck, "but I also believe in relaxing when there's time to relax." There may be less time from now on. Though peppery Pat Patterson will still pilot United from his new post as chairman, broad-shouldered, cigar-chewing George Keck will keep his eye for detail on all opera tions, travel at least 100,000 miles a year. Trained in operations and maintenance, Keck believes in as much personal contact as possible with the line's 32,000 employees. He is considered the heir to Patterson, whose association...
...cold cigar lay on the edge of the littered desk. Sitting behind the desk, Alabama's Governor George Corley Wallace, 44, seemed charged with electric intensity. His eyes, burning like lasers, were dark, deep, and eyebrowed over with black bands. His voice was deceptively soft, grace-noted with a Southern drawl, yet tinged with anxiety...
...picked up his dead cigar and lit it. "I think the people have decided they have been misled. They know we are fighting for principle and not against anything else. It's not too late at all to turn the tide. There's no integration anywhere in the world that's working. You can't make it. We'll have setbacks, but the N.A.A.C.P. kept fighting until it got what it wanted in the courts. We can fight just as long as they did, at least, to change it so it's right again...
...find that she is an Afghan hound, not a mademoiselle. In a nightclub he sets off a chain reaction when he borrows a cigarette lighter from a girl, discovers it is a lipstick, puts it down on an ashtray; the man at the next table thinks it is a cigar, gets lipstick on his mouth, is slapped by his girl friend...
...with three wheels and a tail fin jutting 10 ft. high. The thing was 35 ft. long and 11 ft. wide, weighed three tons. Its single front wheel could be steered only half a degree in either direction. To keep the car from taking off at high speeds, the cigar-shaped body was designed so that the terrific air pressure on the nose would hold it down ("negative lift," engineers call it). A small fin under the nose helped carve a path through the "air wake"-so strong at high speeds that it might otherwise rip the car apart...