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Directed by WILLIAM GIRDLER Screenplay by HARVEY FLAXMAN...
...even sharper ups and downs at Trans World Airlines. With huge infusions of cash, he built it from a small southwestern carrier into a globe girdler. It was also his fief. He chose planes, tinkered with design improvements and harassed TWA's presidents with interminable post-midnight calls. On transcontinental flights, four to six seats were always blocked off for him even though he almost never used them. After Hughes' failure to raise the money for TWA's jet fleet, he lost control of the airline, and the new management hit him with an antitrust suit. Hughes...
Directed by WILLIAM GIRDLER...
...they said, too old (70) and too ill (suffering from what had been vaguely described as a blood disease) to take part in last month's singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race. But Globe Girdler Sir Francis Chichester sailed off anyway, was reported missing for several days, and became the object of extensive air and sea searches before he was located and helped back to port. Stung by continuing criticism, the aging mariner has now clearly identified his albatross-cancer of the spine-and attempted to justify his entry in the race...
Navy's Tim Peard was the fourth double winner of the tournament, adding an 18:12.9 victory in the 1650-yard freestyle to his 400-yard, individual medley win Thursday night. Villanova's Richard Girdler upset Army's Tony Clay to win the 100-yard freestyle...