Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Flight, Pilot-Novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fine story of commercial aviation, an airline manager gazes gloomily out at a heavy night, in futile search for a lost plane. Absently he fingers a sheaf of teletypes on his desk. "These are the paths death takes to enter here," he says, "messages that have lost their meaning...
...Montreal, Reporter Yves Jasmin, brother of one of Canada's outstanding French-language news editors, had happy news. "I had a letter from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going to happen it would be on the westbound trip, because then she would have seen France...
Silence. Six hours later, at 2:50 a.m., Suzanne's boss, veteran pilot Captain de la Noue, sent a message that soon lost its meaning: "Having accomplished first part of flight normally, ready to land in five minutes at Santa Maria. Weather clear...
Last spring two Brown undergraduates died in fraternity roughhouses allegedly brought about by drunkenness. One fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his head; the other was stabbed with an ice-pick in a Providence...
...Administration's bill got a cool reception in the Committee, and will have more tough going on the floor of the House and Senate. Congress must now decide whether Point Four is economically and politically unsound or whether, as Representative Javits of New York said, it is "top flight foreign policy thinking--a real American answer to Communism...