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...pylons stuck in the ground - a sport so suicidal that the U.S. Government outlawed it 15 years ago. But you can't keep a madman down. Last week, with the reluctant blessing of the Federal Aviation Agency, 100 daredevils converged on a patch of desert outside Reno to resume the National Championship Air Races, delicately described by the promoter as "the biggest, safest event in U.S. aviation history." He should have added: "Since the dogfights over MIG Alley...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 65, bantam Broadway entrepreneur and biggest single A.T. &T. stockholder (160,000 shares worth $11 million); by Doris Warner Vidor, 48, heiress to Hollywood's Warner Bros, fortune; on grounds of mental cruelty; after six months of marriage (his fifth); in Reno...
Divorced. Allen Funt, 49, TV's Candid Cameraman; by Evelyn Funt, 44, his chief critic and counselor; after 18 years of marriage, three children; in Reno...
Pilot Ernest Clark, his copilot, stewardess and all 41 passengers were killed. Many of the passengers were returning from the gaming tables at Reno...
...member of the Philippine yachting team in the 1960 Olympics, who later moved to San Francisco. He had bought more than $50,000 in flight insurance, had named his estranged wife as beneficiary. Gonzales had a penchant for gambling, leading to the suspicion that he had lost heavily in Reno and had chosen a weird and horrible way out of his problems...