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To genial, mustached Arthur E. La Porte, wiry veteran of many a hop across the Pacific, went the honor. When the last handshake had been exchanged before the newsreel cameras, Pan American Airways' President Juan Terry Trippe, seeing another ocean-spanning dream about to come true, turned to him...
"The Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The...
In La Porte, Ind., a young woman clerk in the State employment office impatiently insisted that a young male applicant show his social security number. The applicant peeled jacket, undid shirt, showed her the number tattooed across his chest.
For a generation Englishmen have played with the idea of mounting one airplane on the back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In...
Parts of Dr. Simmon's biography are very dramatic. His account of the duel between Pushkin and Baron d' Anthes, as a result of which the poet died, take on the attributes of a tragic drama. One can almost visualize a Hollywood movie version of Pushkin's life. For the...