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...plane," recalled a nervous lady. At Miami International airport, FAA radar observers were aware of trouble, too. Efforts to raise the plane by radio failed. An eavesdropping Pan American pilot on a training flight slid his jet close by to identify the Electra. From SAC's Homestead Air Force Base came a fully armed F-102 to hover watchfully 5,000 ft. above the hijacked plane...
Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 160 miles southwest of Washington, where snow usually comes only in unreliable flurries, seems an unlikely spot for a ski resort. Yet last weekend the stately rooms of The Homestead resort were crowded with the parka-and-stretch-pants set. It is the Southland's winter sport resort, and one thing is sure: there should always be snow. Reason: snow machines, an expensive network of pipes, hoses and nozzles lining the ski trails. Water, atomized by a compressed air blast, turns into snow crystals as it sprays out into below-freezing temperatures. Not only...
Business Booster. The Homestead turned to skiing to fill its rooms in winter, when business drops from 500 guests a day during summer to 30. Now, after investing $376,000 in clearing trails, installing a ski lift and a snow machine, winter business is up to 150 guests a day. Homestead's success has encouraged other investors to plan a resort near Gatlinburg, Tenn. The investors are dickering with Larchmont Engineering, Lexington, Mass., the largest manufacturer of snow makers, for machines...
Piracy & Patronage. Earl had a sharp political instinct and, unlike Huey, the courage of a bull. He fought Huey's childhood battles for him, and later after he followed Huey from their Winnfield homestead as a traveling salesman, lawyer and political guerrilla, he fought some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish...
Male Man. In Homestead, Fla., Postman Walter Stiles was given two weeks' notice for "conduct unbecoming a Government employee" after his picture appeared in a national nudist magazine...