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...gold. Pan Am's regular route from Tokyo to Honolulu required a fuel stop at Wake Island. The dog-legged course was 4,320 miles long and took more than 17 hours. With a boost from the jet stream, Pan Am reasoned, the hop might be made nonstop, saving 450 miles and covering part of the distance free on the river of wind...
...around like a shaken rope, and to predict its position, speed and direction takes both knowledge and skill. Pan Am gathered all available data and added observations of its own. Last year, its meteorologists felt they knew enough to take the plunge. The Stratocruisers were regularly scheduled to fly nonstop from Tokyo. The first flight made Honolulu in 11½ hrs. instead...
...American Airlines Flight 901, nonstop from Fort Worth to Los Angeles, winged over Arizona one night last week, Passenger Francis A. Nixon, 75, lapsed into a semicoma, stricken with a gastric hemorrhage. Captain Joe Glass, the plane's veteran pilot, radioed for an ambulance and landed the DC-6 at Phoenix. Minutes later, Frank Nixon was receiving blood transfusions at St. Joseph's Hospital. The patient's son, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, was promptly notified, although his mother Hannah Nixon hated "to distress him right now when he has so much on his mind...
...Navy, he became a Young & Rubicam vice president at 40, joined NBC in 1949 as head of television. Sometimes called NBC's "thinker-in-chief," Pat Weaver thought up such programs as Your Show of Shows, Today. Already a legend in a legendary trade, Weaver talks in nonstop sentences, studs them with such phrases as "the We-Group formula," "new cosmology," "integrated enlightenment." He once studied a transcript of a speech he had made and was not quite sure what he was talking about. (When he heard a recording, however, he quickly got his point.) Filling the job vacated...
Most business airplanes are still one-engine craft, but the trend is toward two-engine planes, especially designed for business use. Probably the biggest need is for a fast, dependable transport that can cruise at 250 to 300 m.p.h., carry eight to ten passengers up to 1,000 miles nonstop, and sell for about $250,000. Several planebuilders have such a dream ship on their drawing boards. When it comes off the boards, there will be a big line of buyers waiting...