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Britons to the Rescue. Two weeks ago, 122 Americans found themselves stranded for four days at London's Gatwick Airport. The Daedalus Travel Agency in New York, bookers of their charter flight, had failed to provide a plane for the return trip. When the Americans sent a deputation to the U.S. embassy, they were "totally disillusioned," in the words of Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel...
Singers & Cynics. When at last Adenauer returned to Victoria Station to entrain for Gatwick Airport, a small crowd (among them some Germans) astounded the Chancellor and everyone else by breaking raggedly into the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be Foreign Office men in disguise, but if the visit had not endeared Adenauer and the British to each other, it had at least reduced their mutual distrust. "It is from France and not West Germany," sighed the Guardian, "that Britain is now most seriously divided...
...heavy February fog, orbiting aircraft stacked up over London's airports in the biggest queue in seven years. In midafternoon, visibility worsened, and some of the airliners circling over Epsom Downs were ordered to land at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles south of London. At 4:50 p.m., with dusk closing in and visibility at only one mile, a Turkish Airlines Viscount reported that it was on Gatwick Airport's standard instrument landing system, and coming in. It was coming...
Seconds later, with what a control-tower officer called "awful suddenness," the Viscount disappeared from Gatwick's radar screen. Three and a half miles from the airport, the big turboprop plane topped the pines in Jordan's Woods, cut a 30-ft. swath through the saplings, slammed into an oak tree 50-ft. tall. Both wings and all four engines were sheared off. Exploding fuel tanks set fires among the pines. The plane's tail, which had snapped off, hung eerily from a fog-shrouded tree...