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...prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds in Ulus Square below. Never in the history of flying has there been such death on the ground from an airborne accident...
...breakfast-table news about air disasters is achingly familiar. A plane was taking off-or perhaps landing. Some of the passengers, to be sure, were nervous; some always are, no matter how normal conditions may seem. Then, in the merest, most explosive instant of time, came death from flame and mangled metal...
...Bolka of Manhattan's Toy Guidance Council) and are spending $15 million on TV advertising. However, discount selling may shrink the profits of many dealers who cut prices as Christmas nears. Among the most-asked-for items that will find their way beneath many a seven-foot vinyl (flame-resistant, colorfast, $9.98) Christmas tree this season...
...space. Incorporating technical know-how gained on the airplane-engine project, this SNAP (for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) contains liquid lithium and gaseous potassium, tricky fluids that would drive most engine designers to seek liquid solace. Molten lithium is frightening stuff; it corrodes almost anything, and bursts into flame on contact with oxygen. Gaseous potassium, while not quite so bad, is hot and explosive...
...managed to light Paris' dismal Palace of Justice with a pair of well-attended personal appearances. First she kindled a divorce action against Second Husband Jacques Charrier, 26, on the ground that he had "deserted the conjugal home." Next day she loyally testified on behalf of her eternal flame and possible No. 3, Actor Sami Frey, 27, who was suing the weekly Ici-Paris for calling him "The Man Who Destroys BB." Testily, she denied that Sami was insanely jealous, that he popped away at nudenik photographers in St.-Tropez with a .22, or that he got violent when...