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Washington Peace. For President, Mrs. Ellen Linea W. Jensen, 50-year-old Miami grandmother and astrologist who claims to be in close communion with George Washington "on the other side"; for Vice President, a man whose identity Mrs. Jensen doesn't feel free to reveal. Candidate Jensen, who says she was a "Himalayan Master" in a previous incarnation, promises to stamp out Communism "within nine minutes" of her inauguration. Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo...
...ground facilities (it has only one makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan) found that the Authority had got there first with a good...
Twelve U.S. newsmen who junketed south last week to publicize L.A.V.'s (Linea Aeropostal Venezolano) new Constellation service from New York to Caracas got an extra dividend. They saw the tail end of a real (if short-lived) South American revolt, complete with bombs and bullets...
Mightily surprised were Gibraltar residents, who had seen neither planes nor bombs, to hear this announcement over the Rome radio. Not surprised, but mad clear through, were the people of La Linea, just over the Spanish boundary, when they tuned it in. Early the same morning unidentified planes had swooped over the Spanish town, bombed several houses to bits, killed eight of the townspeople, wounded...
Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, "a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch" - ten feet long, equipped with a seat on either side slightly abaft the beam, drawn by a propeller in the nose, gasoline-motivated - was found on the beach. Its motor was still running and its crew had disappeared...