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Before long, disembarking jet passengers may be surprised to see workmen behind them busily carting off the whole insides-seats, galley, cabin partitions-of their aircraft. In Seattle last week, United Air Lines showed off the plane that can do the strip: the 600-m.p.h. Boeing 727 QC (for Quick Change), first airliner designed to moonlight as a cargo plane after turning in a full day, and fat profits, as a passenger carrier...
Whatever their motivation, the millionaires frequently pay a high price for their wealth. They work like galley slaves, have little time for recreation or exercise (Arthur Carlsberg every morning does 15 minutes of pushups, sit-ups and squats-"while I listen to stock market reports on the radio"). Usually they put in ten or twelve hours at the office, then spend their nights and weekends pondering reports or burning up the long-distance lines. Practically everything that they do is somehow devoted to building the business. Says Fletcher Jones, 34, of Los Angeles, who in 1959 saw a need...
Because the President was unhappy with his 17th-floor suite when he was hospitalized for a cold in January (it was too hot, the elevators were too slow, and cooking fumes from an adjoining galley were overpowering), a 20-room complex of classrooms and labs on the third floor had been remodeled. Under Lady Bird's direction, Lyndon's bedsitting room had been decked out with wood paneling, pale green curtains and carpeting. His favorite rocking chair was there, with color photos of his family, autographed pictures of his five predecessors in office, and four paintings...
Papa Topside. Built at a cost of $850,000, Sealab II is a 12-ft. by 57-ft. steel cylinder that houses a well-equipped scientific and medical labo ratory, a compact galley and a dining area with bunks lining the walls. Standing by on the surface is a support barge linked to Sealab by an umbilical cable for power and communications. From the barge, Navy Captain George F. Bond, 50, whom the aquanauts call "Papa Topside," bosses the exercise, chats with them by intercom and observes them by closed-circuit television...
Scranton often prowled the plane, ignoring the FASTEN SEAT BELTS sign, to chat with reporters. Once, he picked up the galley telephone, read over the aircraft loudspeaker system a lengthy statement that got far less attention than it deserved...