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Two disasters hit Pakistan last week, one as modern as the jet age, one as ancient as the wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its...
"Don't ever become a general," the gentleman advised the young Army Reserve lieutenant standing guard at the World's Fair. "If you become a general you just plain have too much to worry about." Coming from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about...
Snapping Column. General Motors is experimenting with wired seat belts that must be buckled before the ignition system will work, and with green taillights that turn red when the brakes are applied and thus give a sharper light contrast on braking than at present. The Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, which does...
"Would you like a chocolate, mad-ame?" asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette...
The bonbon was doped, of course. As Mme. Munck, wife of a gendarme, later told police, "after a while I became sleepy." Across the compartment Truoc Nguyen Huu, a well-to-do Vietnamese businessman who had spent half of his 45 years in France, removed his shoes and socks. "When...