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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking out of her picture window one morning last week, Mrs. Morris Courington, wife of a Chicago merchandising executive, helplessly worried about the model suburban home going up across the street. "It just can't happen in Deerfield," she said. "It just can't." Like almost everybody else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board...
...worlds faster, farther and higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
...Last spring Conrad, an ex-charter-service pilot who has logged more than 36,000 hours and more than 60 transatlantic crossings, made a Casablanca-to-Los Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...
Another member of the small company of light-plane adventurers set a record last week. Peter Gluckmann, 33, a San Francisco watchmaker, piloted a single-engine Cessna 172 from Oakland to Honolulu in 20 hr. 39 min., thus became just about the biggest man (250 lbs.) to fly the smallest plane (145 h.p.) over the longest distance (2,400 miles) of open water...
...morning last week, two men walking their dogs in a wooded park two miles from Bang-Jensen's Long Island home came across Bang-Jensen's body sprawled beside a leaf-strewn bridle path, a bullet hole in his temple. Near by lay a stubby, .25-cal. automatic. In his pocket police found a farewell note addressed to his wife. The police verdict: suicide.* Said the Danish newspaper Information: "This is murder, in whatever way it happened...