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...past exploits were hardly enough to save the company. What did save it was a new plane, whose basic design Bob Gross conceived while lingering over coffee one morning in the lobby of Burbank's Union Air Terminal. The plane was Lockheed's Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich...
...went down unnoticed," said an exile, who lost his own boat 50 miles south of Key West. And then there was the distraught exile who could not get up the price of a boat to Cuba to get his family out, and unsuccessfully tried to hijack a National Airlines Electra bound from Miami to Key West. Washington could only sigh with relief that an agreement for a "safe and orderly" evacuation apparently was near...
...such overpowering imagination does not continue throughout the film. A modern adaptation of Electra, Sandra concerns the Italian wife of an American diplomat, who has committed incest with her brother. Visconti has strangely tacked a happy ending onto the tragedy, as Sandra overcomes her illicit feelings and returns to her husband. After the long emotional buildup, one feels robbed of the catharsis. Perhaps Visconti was attempting to pour new life into an old form by providing a different kind of shock at the resolution...
...caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between the U.S. and Cuba to return "hijacked" property; the day before the defection, Castro's officials had returned an Eastern Airlines Electra that had been hijacked at gunpoint from Miami...
...Rush is humorously off-handed about his past, he is positively evasive about the future: "Well, right now I'm living the way I want, doing something I enjoy doing. When that stops, I guess I'll do something else." Rush has four albums released, a new contract with Electra, and his now customary Monday night mands a sizeable and quietly destand at the Club 47 that comvoted audience. If, as one of his songs says--woman don't always treat him right--things could be a lot worse...