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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show for 41 years. The man was Collett Everman Woolman. Old-fash ioned where finances were involved, "C. E." was progressive about his equip ment. Nothing pleased him so much as the fact that the airline he founded was the first to fly the Convair 880, the DC-8, and last year the DC-9. Delta was also scheduled to be first with the Lockheed L-100, a civilian model of the Air Force Hercules cargo plane. But when the occasion came last week, it was a sad one. Flying from Houston to Atlanta, Delta's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Final Flight | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...discourage Viet Cong activity. Their explosions light up the sky and shake the city. Five miles from the downtown Caravelle Hotel, the air buzzes with "lightning bugs" -helicopters fitted out with powerful spotlights to pick out Charlie-and the soft sizzle of parachute flares. Rocket-bearing choppers and DC-3s bristling with rapid-fire miniguns patrol the perimeter, waiting to pounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Encircled City | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Charles de Gaulle climbed aboard an Air France DC-8 last week and headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on the future of Africa. In Cambodia he was to meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, presumably to condemn the war in Viet Nam. In Tahiti he was to watch the detonation of the eighth nuclear device of his celebrated force de frappe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Incident in Djibouti | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Within hours after the union's strikeending ballot, all five of the afflicted lines resumed at least half their normal schedules. National, with a DC-8 flight leaving Miami for Los Angeles at 1 a.m. Saturday, was first to get into the air. Among TWA's first flights were three transatlantic jets bearing only extra flight crews, who were needed overseas to man flights for stranded tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Back to Work Through an Open Gate | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Taylor's entire investment of $1,142,902 in acquiring 85% of Holland's West-Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. West-Friesland is losing money-as Taylor predicted it would for at least five years. The other adjustments involved the bankrupt Yale Express System, which was being managed by DC, and West Coast Fast Freight, which is now under DC management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Charges of Reckless Driving | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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