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...Salvador ousted Baron de Muzi-Falconi, Italian charge d'affaires, who scuttled for Guatemala City and a reported preconference rendezvous with the remaining Axis agents in Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Stunts. Speedster Hawks's flight gave the Air Races audience something to think about, but most of the sensations in store for them were visceral rather than cerebral. Lieutenant Tito Falconi, young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: International Races | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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