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...About a fortnight ago, Zalta was named one of the two new producers for next year’s run, the 158th of the company, but first in its new, temporary home away from its 12 Holyoke home of yore...
...occasion, however, something goes wrong, and a fortnight ago it did. In Niagara Falls, Lieut. Commander Robert Michael Gershon, 32, was piloting his Skyhawk through a stunt called the opposing blivot, in which two planes approach head on, then, as they come within 200 ft. of each other, go into steep climbs. At the peak of the stunt, the pilots pull out of a 6,000-ft.-high loop, point their planes downward and crisscross paths at a 45° angle. It was during that precisely timed climax that Gershon's plane and another A-4 collided. The pilot...
...idea of what life in them is like. Says a Johannesburg travel agent: "Foreign visitors who take the scheduled bus tour to Soweto," the sprawling black township southwest of Johannesburg, "know more about the place than do most of the city's whites." Those tours were temporarily canceled a fortnight ago after a bus carrying American, German and British tourists was stoned by youths...
...Another character with underworld connections flashed across the horizon of the Lindbergh case during its first fortnight. He was swart, Semitic Morris Rosner, one-time Government operative. Congresswoman Ruth Pratt of New York was supposed to have been one of his sponsors. Mr. Rosner's connection with the case, however, paled into obscurity when the three Norfolkers came on the scene during the last week of March...
...from Crossman, Greg Cairns, 51, is making a week on-week off arrangement work with his ex-wife and their three daughters - 13, nine and seven. Because he was an involved father while the marriage was intact, the prospect of not seeing his girls for a fortnight at a time was unbearable, Cairns says. It wasn't as difficult as many men might imagine, he adds, to negotiate with his employer working hours that allowed shared care...