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...After World War I, the Versailles Treaty denied military aircraft to the vanquished and the Germans trained some 50,000 glider pilots. Americans began picking up the gliding habit in the late 1920s; in 1939 three brothers, Ernest, Paul and William Schweizer, set up the Schweizer Aircraft Corp. in Elmira, N.Y., which is still the principal American manufacturer...
...York City. The Potomac crested in Washington at 6 ft. above flood level, the highest in 36 years; the Kennedy Center approaches were inundated, and Army engineers packed protective sandbags near the Washington Monument. At Corning, N.Y., all of the Corning Glass Works facilities were under water; nearby in Elmira, 20 ft. of water lapped at buildings in the downtown business district...
DARIUS D. BUELL Elmira, Mich...
Blyden, 34, was born in the Virgin Islands; he moved to New York at the age of 16. At 20, he was convicted, along with his younger brother, of robbing a gas station of less than $100; for the theft, he spent five years in Elmira State Reformatory. In 1965, four years after his release, Blyden was convicted, on somewhat uncertain testimony, of robbing a Bronx car-rental agency. Blyden insisted that he was not guilty. After he was sentenced to a 15-to 20-year term, he began studying law in order to prepare briefs appealing his conviction...
GEORGE C. GOULD Elmira...