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...invention." Next day, at an impromptu press conference in an Albany airport hangar, Rocky himself implied that the whole story had been planted with the Daily News by New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. He called it "absurd and wishful thinking on the part of the Democratic boss." Then reporters asked him if he thought that his divorce would hurt him politically. "I don't think so," he said. Question: "Do you consider the divorce question nonpolitical?" The heated reply: "I certainly consider it a personal matter...
...Enterprise has no weapons for its own defense, will rely on its speed, maneuverability and the guns and rockets of its shepherding ships for survival in the age of the atom and the missile. The Enterprise is specially reinforced to withstand nuclear attack, can seal itself off below the hangar deck to avoid fallout, and has a washdown system to sluice away the spray from atomic near misses...
...time, Continental is among the nation's most cost-conscious airlines. By servicing its jets at night, Continental keeps them flying 10½ hours a day (v. an industry average of 6½), yet has never had a passenger fatality. At the line's headquarters in a hangar at Denver's Stapleton Field, executive offices range from Spartan to shabby. Says Executive Vice President Harding Lawrence, 41: "We don't go for frills on the ground. We don't have an assistant to anybody...
Before the workers moved in, the Stand ard Fruit Co. (which used the previous grass airstrip as a duster-plane base) and a helicopter company were each abruptly given eight hours to clear out. Stand ard Fruit's small hangar was taken over by the government - also for cash...
Through the hangar bay and in the compartments above the main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they...