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...that night, Veteran Pilot Jorge Guzmán taxied LAMSA's Flight 202 out to the end of the runway and revved up his engines for the nonstop flight to Mexico City, 430 mountain-studded miles to the southeast. Guzmán tested his flaps and rudder, then gave his DC-3 the gun and soared up into the chill, starry night. At 12,000 feet he seemed to feel something wrong. "It didn't feel like anything serious," he later explained, "but there was a vibration somewhere in the back and the controls didn't feel...
...Torreón control tower's searchlight picked up Flight 202 coming back, one of its operators spotted a dark object clinging to the horizontal stabilizer on the right of the plane's rudder. When Guzman brought the ship in, the object slid off and ran right into the ground crew's arms. It was Cliserio Reyes...
Captain Harvey had turned about and was headed back toward London. He radioed that his craft had been struck by lightning, told the Northolt emergency crew to stand by for a crash landing. Pilot Harvey knew he was taking on a large order. The explosion had jammed his rudder in central position. He had only slight control of his tail elevators. Harvey was going to try to land on what control he could get from his engines and wing ailerons...
Ollie Iselin, Ted Renolds, and Clarence Asp, veterans of last year's crew and juniors all, are strong contenders for the first shell. Bill Leavitt, last year's coxswain will succeed himself at the rudder and is also captain for 1950. George Hewitt, and Buffy Bohlen, J.V.'s last year, are working for varsity slots...
...young Benjamin Franklin organized ten convivial friends into the "Junto"*study club, to discuss such questions as: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard?" and "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" The Junto club has long since disbanded, but it is still so famed in Philadelphia that when a group of public-spirited citizens started a nonprofit school for adult education in 1941, Junto seemed the logical name for it. Last week, the Junto told of making a business deal in its own self-interest that would have brought an amazed gasp from...