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Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
...ships an average of 11.5 hours a day, the most obvious way to meet the enormous demand for air transportation is to boost the load each plane is licensed to carry. CAB has proposed to increase the Douglas DC-3 take-off weight limit of 25,200 Ib. by 1,000 Ib. and the 24,400-lb. landing weight by 800 Ib...
Behncke protests that cramming 1,000 Ib. of added payload into commercial planes, most of which are five or six years old, would be highly risky for pilots and passengers. CAB engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion...
...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
Such is the type of regime which threatens to spread to other Latin countries. Notably endangered is uneasy, inflated Chile (TIME, Jan. 10) which still fears a military revolt, backed by Argentina and possibly led by ex-President Carlos Ib...