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...argument scarcely returns the blood to the knuckles of those millions of airline passengers who are jittery about flying under the best of circumstances. TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who has been following air-controller operations at Chicago's O'Hare for several years, last week found a marked change in the mood of the pressure-packed tower crews 200 ft. above the runways, as well as in the darkened radar room 20 ft. underground...
...There is a swaggering style, a macho flair to O'Hare's ace controllers. In near darkness, they hunch over their radarscopes like teen-age boys playing electronic games. Their faces glow in the greenish-yellow light, as each sweep of the radar reveals a constantly changing configuration of planes. They have developed their own special mystique. They chain smoke and drink countless cups of coffee while placating their upset stomachs with chalky Maalox tablets from the big glass candy jars that are standard in every control room...
...nation is Atlanta's eleven-month-old Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, a sprawling, twin-terminal complex designed to eliminate the congestion that had existed at the city's old one, which was already the second busiest in the U.S. after Chicago's O'Hare...
Instead of boarding the flight home, Runkle, using the name M. Clark, paid $204 in cash for a one-way fare to Chicago. Still using her assumed name, she registered at the O'Hare Airport Hilton Hotel and paid cash for her room. She browsed the lobby later that night-and was never seen alive again...
...evening a call came from the Illinois Beach State Park, 30 miles north of Chicago: a packet of Janice's ID cards had been found in a trash can. The next morning, Axthelm received the rueful letter, 13 pages handwritten by Runkle on the flight to O'Hare. In it she recounted her last, stormy hours with Campo. "The first two hours he spent threatening to kill both of us," she wrote. "Funny part is, a couple of years ago, I went out with someone he knew and he hardly batted an eye, though we were even closer...