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...Continental Air Lines Boeing 707 was blown up by dynamite in mid-air near the Iowa-Missouri border last May 22 (45 dead). Said CAB: "All the evidence leads logically to the conclusion that a dynamite device was placed in the used-towel bin of the right rear lavatory with the express intent to destroy the aircraft. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that before the flight, Victim Thomas G. Doty, 34, who faced prosecution for armed robbery, bought some dynamite and $275,000 worth of life insurance payable to his wife...
...foretellings of Big Brotherism, the system has worked some good. Last Halloween, teen-aged pranksters invaded the University Apartments lobby. Their hands, clutching tubes of lipstick, were poised in mid-air with the four-letter words yet unwritten when a husky voice boomed out at them. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," it said. They fled...
Mice & Alcohol. Sometimes the investi gation takes years. The CAB has been working for 14 months on the mid-air collision between a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Constellation, history's worst air disaster with 134 dead, has still not issued a report. At other times, the CAB pinpoints the cause rapidly. It took only three months to discover why a Constella tion of nonsked Imperial Airlines crashed last November near Richmond; the cap tain survived, and his testimony helped the CAB to uncover an incredible story of incompetence in the cockpit...
Floating Camera. Indeed, weightlessness became a sort of sport. Glenn had with him a small hand camera to take pictures with through his window. "It just seemed perfectly natural, rather than put the camera away, I just put it out in mid-air and let go of it." With the camera suspended as though on an invisible shelf, Glenn went on with other work, then reached back and plucked the camera out of the air. Only once was there any difficulty. Preparing to change film, Glenn let the roll slip out of his fingers. He grabbed for it, but "instead...
...color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than in his fantasy called Birthday. The painting shows a husband floating in, mid-air as he lands a kiss on his wife's lips. Chagall said it was inspired by the phrase "head over heels in love...