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...future, thinks bustling Bob Six, Continental's chances can be bright indeed if it keeps expanding. Already approved by CAB is a Chicago-Los Angeles nonstop jet service due to start in mid-1959. Ahead lies pending approval for nonstop Dallas-San Francisco service. Even more ambitious is a possible interchange with Capital Airlines, creating a new coast-to-coast system nearly as big as any of the four big U.S. lines...
...Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they had flown 24,325 miles in 45 hr. 19 min. at an average speed of about 550 m.p.h...
...amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change the rules themselves. With half the members already signed on as cosponsors, the rules amendment should pass with little difficulty. With both measures through, a tiny band of Southerners who over the years have combined seniority and archaic rules to strangle legislation that displeased them...
What Marconi Wrought Last November station KFDA's Art Holt of Amarillo, Texas set a world's nonstop endurance record for disk jockeys: six days and six nights. Last week Disk Jockey Ray Briem, 26, of Salt Lake City's KLUB, putting on LPs for trips to the bathroom and catnaps, spun, gabbed and wheezed his way to a new record: six days, six nights and six hours...
...Denver speech reviewing the history of U.S. military aviation, Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining last week made news heard all the way to Moscow. In a two-week period ending Dec. 11, said Twining, more than 1,000 Strategic Air Command B-47 jet bombers flew nonstop combat training missions averaging 8,000 miles each over North America and the arctic. "This is the first time that the nation's Strategic Air Force has tested the operational capability of its strike force in such large numbers during such a short period of time. These missions demonstrated...