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...Happy Day, written by a lanky (6 ft. 1 in.), 17-year-old Cleveland high-school junior named Don Howard (full name: Donald Howard Kaplow), is a rudimentary little piece. To the accompaniment of his own guitar, Donnie himself moos his happy tune with the hoarse lilt of a fogbound ferry whistle. Sample chorus...
...This," explained an Air France steward to 33 passengers aboard a plane at London Airport last week, "is what you call a real pea-souper." One of the thickest particulars in London's fogbound history was blanketing the field. It had caught the airliner just after she landed on Runway 280. Before the French pilot could brake to a stop, his aircraft was blanketed. "Stay where you are " ordered the control tower in answer to his plea. "We'll tow you in." Pilot Legillou ordered champagne and brandy passed out to the passengers. "We must be happy while...
...rocky and fogbound shore of colonial Mystic, the founding fathers constructed their college buildings, surrounded them by a high brick wall, and commenced to indoctrinate the callow youths of the area with a system of "sound moral principles...
...West Coast of the U.S. flew the Singapore Trader, stopping briefly at Anchorage, Alaska, and at the Shemya airport in the Aleutians. Shemya was fogbound, but a MATS ground crew talked the ship down with GCA equipment, guided it to a perfect landing between the double white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private...
...turbojet engine, however, also has its troubles. A jet plane lacks power while taking off, when power is needed most. It is inefficient at low speeds, and therefore cannot save fuel by slowing down, as when "stacked up" over a fogbound airport. These faults were not so bad in the case of fast fighters, but when designers tackled jet airliners or long-range bombers, they missed the good old propeller, which gets a firm grip on the air at even slow take-off speeds...