Word: round-the-world
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...searing the air. 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...
...midyear, SAC will take delivery on its first Boeing KC-135 jet tankers, which, had they been in operation last week, would have cut about six hours off the round-the-world mission. *Since the flyers traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic...
...salt from Philadelphia, who served as round-the-world navigator on his father's schooner and as a lieutenant commander in World War II, Baker still finds that every cover story requires a different trim of the sails. The main job in his Grace Kelly cover was to catch the cool, white-gloved elegance of a new kind of Hollywood star. With André Malraux it was to define the place of an elusive literary and political figure in the complicated world of contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives...
...ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS will be offered early in 1957 by Trans World Airlines, second U.S. carrier to do so (first: Pan American World Airways). T.W.A. got CAB approval to extend its route eastward from Bombay and Ceylon to Manila, link up there with Northwest Airlines...
...Next week ABC will launch Treasure Hunt (Fri. 9 p.m.), offering a paltry $25,000 to the person who picks the right treasure out of a muckle of 50 chests. If he misses the moneybags, he may still win title to a car, speedboat, house trailer, round-the-world cruise or a head of cabbage. Treasure Hunt will be the only show on the air that will call for old-fashioned wishbone-type luck. Says ABC President Bob Kintner: "We are more interested in giving away entertainment...