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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shame! Shame! Shame! How could 60 editorial researchers, plus who knows how many proofreaders, make such a horrendous error [as to spell the Philadelphia Inquirer the Enquirer on Nov. 16]? Please keep them all after school and make them write 100 times each: Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three stewards (who always check with Draper to make sure that the plane is not headed for turbulent weather before they serve the President his meals). All carry printed cards listing special emergency procedures, and all frequently (and unobtrusively) run through emergency drills. Draper himself makes it a point to review emergency routines with the President, who, like...
...month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
...field at Kabul, Afghanistan (which is being constructed for the Afghans by the Russians). Hemmed in by high mountain ranges, Kabul has no instrument-landing facilities, is often socked in suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul again on the way back from New Delhi to Europe...
...trouble. We're in trouble. I'm sure we are." The rocket kept soaring until it disappeared from sight out over the Atlantic. But an hour later Program Director Adolph K. Thiel, somber and red-eyed, told waiting newsmen the unhappy news: "We didn't make it. Something happened. We don't know what...