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...back at Harvard, a man with many interests and a score of hobbies. Tall, lean, athletic, he sails quite a bit--"coastal cruising, that is"--and has from an early age. "I was almost born in Nantucket--missed it by three weeks. My family and I have always frequented the place." And when the wind blows cold and slush piles up along the coast, Labaree takes to the New England hills and skis ("with more enthusiasm than skill, I'm afraid...
...Owens, by the way, have known Labaree virtually all his life. Professor Owen and Leonard Labaree were colleagues at the Yale grad school, and later on the history faculty at New Haven. "We saw more of the Labarees than any other couple, in New Haven or down at Nantucket; and in a way I was worried about having someone so close to me on my staff. Then, too, he's an historian, which makes four housemasters and four senior tutors in the field. But I certainly am happy we have...
...bags and hurried to make Flight 258 at its scheduled time. They had little time for delay; they were weekend aerial commuters, a modern phenomenon, traveling regularly from their workweek jobs in New York to their New England summer homes. Flight 258 wheeled northeasterly from La Guardia, headed toward Nantucket Island, only 68 air-minutes away...
Forty minutes off Nantucket, Pilot John Burnham, 37, checked for a weather report with Cape Cod's Otis Air Force Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair...
Died. Gordon Evans Dean, 52, a senior vice president of General Dynamics Corp., onetime (1950-53) chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and later critic of U.S. atomic policy, assistant dean at Duke University Law School (1930-34); in the crash of a Northeast Airlines Convair; in Nantucket, Mass, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...