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...aging jalopy jockey from Lowell, Mass., swings to a beat of his own. The pad-dwelling poets are looking elsewhere for a laureate. Kerouac, 44, has let them down. He is a true pilgrim, and his objective is not the future but the past. The latest fragment of his nonstop autobiography records, of all things, a search for noble Kerouac ancestors in ancient Armorica (Brittany) just as if he were some crude millionaire of the Gilded Age shopping at Heralds College for something fancy in the way of ancestors. That Kerouac has simple faith became evident long ago; that...
Agreed to Upgrade. The new deal calls for nonstop, round-trip flights between New York and Moscow, to be flown twice a week in the spring and summer, once a week in fall and winter, by both Pan American and Aeroflot, the U.S.S.R.'s huge government-owned airline. Service is expected to start next spring at about $550 for a roundtrip economy 21-day excursion. Pan Am will probably put Boeing 707s on the route. Aeroflot will most likely use the massive TU-114s that it flew last week in initiating an Aeroflot-Air Canada service between Moscow...
...seems unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village. Men make noise as a way of showing their vitality, and they welcome the noises others make as tokens against loneliness...
...Concorde will be in service on schedule in May 1971, expensive engine and wing changes have had to be worked into the original design to guarantee a 4,000-mile range with ample fuel reserves, and thus quiet complaints that the plane was too short-legged for reliable, nonstop transatlantic flight. Those modifications, along with a "stretched" cabin which boosts passenger capacity from 118 to a more profitable 136, have helped send development costs soaring from the original estimate of $500 million to $1.1 billion. The tab for each plane, accordingly, has risen from $10 million to $16 million...
...three successive days, Author Stafford merely set a tape recorder whirling and asked 58-year-old Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, to talk nonstop. She complied readily, for a price of course ($1,500). Anybody who read anything at all about Mrs. Oswald after the Kennedy assassination will know what to expect. For the rest, a minute of her motherly monologue ought to suffice...