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BRITISH COMET JETLINERS have been ordered by Capital Airlines, which is doing well with British Vickers Viscount turboprops. Capital will pay $53 million for 14 de Havilland Comet IVs, bigger (74 seats), faster (545 m.p.h.) versions of ill-fated Comet I. Main reason for Capital's move: U.S. jets will be too big, too costly to operate along Capital's medium-range airline routes. Planned delivery date...
...This Worry. Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer. "O.K. if I go to Jerusalem...
...planemakers throughout his eight years at BOAC. He stirred up storms by pruning BOAC's staff from 24,000 to 18,000. And he galled Britons by replacing British planes with U.S. Boeing Stratocruisers and Lockheed Constellations. Recently, he ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative...
Though Feisal arrived in the company of Iraqi Premier Nuri es-Said, Hussein flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime Minister. Having successfully sacked Glubb Pasha, symbol of Britain's long Jordanian dominance, Hussein seemed to be savoring his independence. He had turned down the invitation to join Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence...
...yachts: the black-hulled, 190-ft. schooner Creole (a 32-man crew) and "a little one," the 103-ft. Eros. Niarchos delights in packing celebrities off on prepaid Mediterranean cruises, although on last year's Mediterranean junket for Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell and friends (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, Perle Mesta) Niarchos was "too busy" to go along...