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...trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
University physicists are sitting up on a grim "death watch" this morning at the Everett St. Cyclotron Lab after starting up the balky 745-ton machine for a non-stop, three week marathon...
After American Airlines started its non-stop transcontinental service nine months ago, it went to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to boost the maximum flight time for air crews from eight to ten hours. American's new Douglas DC-7s could easily make the eastbound flight within the time limit, but strong prevailing winds at high altitudes often held westbound flights in the air for nine hours or more. American had no trouble getting permission from the CAB, which already had a more liberal rule for transoceanic flights. But last week the biggest U.S. airline ran into plenty...
...NON-STOP AIRLINE RACE is still picking up steam. Lockheed has modified T.W.A.'s Super Connies to add 10 m.p.h. to their speed, bring them within 23 m.p.h. of American Airlines' 360 m.p.h...
...first carload of papers was sent off last night on a non-stop train bedecked with signs saying, "Crime for New York" and "Educate the New Yorkers." Francis M. V. Cahouet '54, CRIMSON Business Manager, is handling the problem of distribution. "We couldn't decide on a place for the hand out." Cahouet said, "but we finally picked Tammany Hall." Other copies will be sold in only the finer hotels around Pell and Mott streets...