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Paule Emile LaPointe, chief pilot for Quebecair Inc., a Canadian bush airline, was making a routine charter flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter. Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated on ground search...
...motorcycle escort. Even President Vargas was startled by the U. S. President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating the rounded dome of Sugar Loaf Mountain...
...will no doubt remember, my worthy friend, the agreeable day which we passed in the delightful gardens of the Moulin Joli in charming company. You will, perhaps, also remember that after dinner . . . I let the rest of the company proceed and remained behind alone in an alley. Here an indefinite number of dead frames of little flies had been pointed out to us, belonging to the species of ephemaries whose generations succeed one another day by day. These insects only exist for ten hours...
...said he, ' in the opinion of our wisest philosophers, held that the world of the Moulin Joli could only last 18 hours, and this opinion seems to me well founded...
...acquisitions of knowledge while life is so short. My friends endeavor to console me by making me hope that my name will survive. . . . But of what use is a name to an ephemary who perishes? And what will become of all history in 18 hours, when the Moulin Joli and the whole world will come to an end, when all things will be enveloped in universal ruin? As for me, . . . one real pleasure remains, . . . and that is the conviction I have tried during my whole life to do good, and a delightful memory of having enjoyed the amiable conversation...