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...relief of Olivia Mary Galante," read the bill stuffed in the congressional hopper by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter. The proposal: let Tokyo-born Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, wife of Paris Journalist Pierre Galante, keep her U.S. citizenship without spending at least 18 months of every five years in the U.S., as must all naturalized Americans. No movie buff, Congressman Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, who has kept a flinty eye on the foreign-born, seemed sure of Olivia's loyalty: "She is a lovely person, a very good American. She made...
...beat it. We offer speed, service, safety and new planes." Real has built its fleet to 120 (v. Panagra's 19), and most of the other lines have big plans. The state-owned Argentine Airline is wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets; Real has bought four Convair jet 880s, will fly a route to Tokyo...
...about plots "in the palace" against the Jordanian people. This was the familiar signal, sounded just before the Baghdad Pact riots in 1955, for Egyptian agents and Communist organizers to lead the mobs into the streets. But before it could begin, King Hussein got into his twin-engine de Havilland Dove, and flew off to a secret rendezvous at H-3 with his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal...
Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...
There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully aware. (Watkinson also tried to soothe British egos by stating that BOAC's U.S. jets will use homemade Rolls-Royce engines installed in the Boeing air frames, thus save $25 million in dollars...