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...range jet race. In London the Ministry of Supply announced the canceling of the R.A. F. contract for the Vickers-Armstrongs Type 1,000 jet transport, the jet which British planemakers hoped would compete with Boeing and Douglas. The only jet transport now abuilding for commercial use is de Havilland's Comet Four, scheduled for delivery about the same time as the Boeing. But the Comet is slower, smaller and has a shorter range (no nonstop transatlantic flights...
Stars of the show were Britain's newest jet engines. De Havilland's Gyron has 15,000 Ibs. of static thrust, is claimed to be the most powerful in the world. The Rolls-Royce Conway, a "bypass jet" with 13.000 Ibs. of thrust (TIME, July 4), was shown at Farnborough for the first time...
Three years ago a De Havilland DH-110 jet fighter disintegrated and plunged into a crowd, killing 28, but the crowds last week did not seem nervous when almost untested new airplanes flashed a few feet over their heads. Many of the airplanes were supersonic, but much to the crowd's disappointment, they all kept below the speed of sound. Britain's air officialdom has probably decided that the shock waves stirred up by the latest airplanes are too dangerous even for Britain's gluttons-for-punishment public...
...minute arrangements for an aristocratic cruise, slated to sail from Venice next week to nose about Greece and its islands. On the celebrity-jammed roster of some 120 guests: Scotland's Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous living, Elsa was also charting a full course of culture-vulture activities, including...
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 38, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress); and Pierre Galante, 45, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match; she for the second time (her first: Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, one-shot author of the novel Delilah), he for the first; in Ivoy-le-Marron, France...