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...Fortnight ago the heads of American Airlines faced an embarrassing task-explaining why one of their DC-45 had gone into a violent dive, on a clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...
Fiery President Gabriel González Videla, who as senator used to throw inkwells at congressional foes, last week threw the whole desk at his onetime Communist friends. In so doing, he gave the New World's loudest answer to the Communist manifesto, issued in Poland last fortnight (see INTERNATIONAL...
When Communist-led miners struck last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 13), González Videla sensed a Red plot to disrupt his country's economy. Announcement of the rebirth of the Comintern, the day after the strike began, set off an explosion...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's wife, Nola, who divorced him last fortnight, got a license in Manhattan to marry Businessman Anthony Arthur Williams...
...Indonesians did their best to make the wells productive. Fortnight ago, in accordance with a traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...