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...course there are plenty of post-Lindbergh improvements along the way. Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue...
...whole party moved over to the armory, where 6,000 contributors had turned out to see a splendid show, organized by Broadway-Composer Richard Adler. The huge hall was happily decorated with 4,000 red. white and blue balloons, and there were plenty of Kennedys for the guests to gander at. M.C.s Gene Kelly and Kirk Douglas mixed wisecracks (said Douglas, "I've heard a rumor that a movie is to be made about Brother Edward, to be called 'I Was a Teen-Age Senator' ") with tributes to the President, and introduced a parade of first-rate...
When the Old Vic repertory company toured Down Under early this year, New Zealand Beer Baron Sir Ernest Davis, 90, turned up at the Auckland theater for a gander at Actress Vivien Leigh, 48, playing Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias. So smitten was Sir Ernest with vibrant Vivien that he hurried backstage after the performance, wined and dined the cast, kept in touch by occasional long-distance phone calls when she returned to London, and on one occasion promised to remember her in his will. Last month Sir Ernest died-and his will...
...proposed a standby "Council of Free Nations" that would step in, with military force if necessary, "when the U.N. is prevented from taking action, or if it fails to act to preserve peace." When the pilot touched the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza down at Newfoundland's Gander airport and began discussing a flight plan, the officials were horrified. They surely would not permit Marion Hart, 70, to fly the Atlantic to Ireland. They wouldn't even let her have gas or weather reports. So she simply picked up what news she could about the weather from jetliner captains...
...fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman-2,279 miles from New Orleans to a refueling stop in Gander, Nfld...