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Aero Alti-Cruiser, a pressurized, souped-up version of the Aero Commander. Cruising speed: 230 m.p.h. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEWEST PLANES | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...entertainment of union chiefs and their friends, the local kept a 40-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser, a mountain cabin, a twin-engined Beech airplane; two Local No. 3 officials admitted that they once used the plane to fly to five different cities to cash $2,000 expense checks so it would look as though the money was being spent for campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Organized Labor (Contd.) | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Defense Minister by enveloping his frail frame in a flying suit, strapping on a crash helmet and climbing aboard a Canberra jet bomber of the Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds filled the streets outside waiting to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Folksy Diplomat | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Moroccans managed to hang on to some of Ifni's border outposts. Spanish paratroops dropped from the skies to retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Door to the Sahara | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...picture has plenty of love interest (Anne Francis and Gia Scala), and even provides something in the way of a battle. Lieut. Siegel at one point sees service on a heavy cruiser-but it's only she-duty. He is assigned to look after a lady correspondent (Eva Gabor), who is all too easily persuaded to part with her panties, which are next seen fluttering from the halyards as the ship goes into battle. "Ggrrulfskrggrowlk!" roars the admiral, but a seaman standing by reminds him, with a jaw squared in patriotism, "Sir, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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