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The French President and a special envoy of the Sultan of Turkey were on the flag-bedecked platform at Paris' Care de I'Est when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of...
Matter of Timing. The operation was a masterwork of organization. By 3:30 a.m., army, navy and air units, backed by tanks, held all key points. In all Turkey only one man was killed-an army lieutenant who was shot when an excited cop pulled a gun as the officer...
At the start of the eleven-month investigation, crash detectives from the Italian and U.S. governments,TWA, and Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane, had precious few clues to go on. "It was a mess," said one of the experts. "All we could tell at first was that the right...
¶ Boring into Miami International Airport in broad daylight en route from New York International Airport to Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at...