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...Last year the country's planes flew 3,000,000 passengers, and the load is expected to increase another 20% this year. Competing with government-owned Trans-Australia Airlines, Ansett flew more than half the national total in his 100-plane fleet, which ranges from small Cessnas to propjet Viscounts and Electras, and will soon include Boeing 727 jets...
Southeastward at 18,000 ft. over southern Indiana one afternoon last week bored a Northwest Airlines propjet Lockheed Electra bearing passengers from snowy Minneapolis and Chicago to Miami. At about 3 o'clock, Pilot Ed Laparle, 57, checked on the radio with Indianapolis Control Center, signed off with an all's well. Fifteen minutes later, a farmer in the Ohio River town of Tell City, Ind. heard "popping sounds, like shotgun shells or a little louder." Looking up, he saw the Electra break in two pieces, the right wing looping off in one direction, the rest...
...nine huge cloth dragons whirled along in pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao...
Cameras to Corn. By week's end, detailed plans were well along for Nikita Khrushchev's arrival in the nation's capital. At 10 a m. next Tuesday, when he alights from the TU-114 propjet plane at Andrews Air Force Base. 15 miles southeast of Washington, the Soviet Premier will be welcomed to U.S. soil by President Dwight Eisenhower and other Government and military leaders. Metropolitan police. Secret Service and State Department security officers will line his route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...
...doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles") and 300 6-36 propjet bombers squat on their ramps on 24-hour alert, with tanks topped with fuel and nuclear weapons preloaded. SAC's new commander, General Thomas Sarsfield Power, has decreed that one-third of SAC's planes must be ready to take off within 15 minutes after an alarm. Nowhere...