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...telephotolens pictures of the brief swearing-in ceremony. Minutes later, the color film was awash in the darkrooms at the Washington Bureau. When the developing process was finished three hours later, TIME Art Director Michael J. Phillips picked up the just-dry transparencies, caught a 4:45 p.m. Electra flight to Chicago, carried the films to TIME'S central printing plant near the lakefront. There he selected one of the prints for the cover and, consulting with the editors in New York, prepared a layout...
...Electra's O.K." So said Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada last week as he lifted the 259-mile-an-hour speed restriction he had imposed on the plane nearly a year ago after two crashes took 97 lives. The FAA had taken improved Electras, their engine mounts and wings strengthened to eliminate the gyroscopic resonance (i.e., vibration) that had torn the wings off two planes, and then put them through spins and power dives in what Quesada called "probably the toughest flight check...
While FAA inspectors looked on, the Electra's builder, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., had its test pilots put the plane through 100 hours of landings, take-offs and dives. In the most severe test, an engine mount was deliberately weakened to test the margin of safety. The pilots, wearing parachutes, put the plane into a 418-mile-an-hour power dive, but the fatal vibration never showed...
...porcupine is not the only new plane joining the center's fleet. Soon it will have a Lockheed Electra, a Convair 880 and a Boeing 720. They will serve as flying classrooms to teach the FAA flight inspectors proper flying procedures in an effort to improve safety in the crowded air, where 11,000 planes are aloft at all times...
...Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...