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...people on the crashing plane were beyond help. One crewman had managed to parachute to safety. The others, including Laurence Adolphe Steinhardt, 57, U.S. ambassador to Canada, were dead in the tangle of shattered metal burning itself out on the snowy field...
Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...
...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...
With George Crocker as crewman, Hoppin racked up a perfect score by taking first place in three consecutive races...
There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...