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...Stanleyville resident was said to have answered a knock on the door to find an African asking to be shown the house he would be given after June 30. More ominously, Lumumba men produced a blacklist of Belgians who would be "eliminated" after independence unless they left the country. Sabena's daily jets to Europe were already jammed, and 80 special flights were scheduled to handle the rush of Belgains scuttling for safety before the independence date...
...cities only null apart. Price: between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000-about half the cost of a DC-8 or Boeing 707. The first flights of the new plane with engines placed near the tail were so successful that eight airlines (among them: Air France, SAS, Alitalia, Sabena, Varig) have ordered 60 planes. The experts think that is just a starter, forecast a potential North American market of 500 Caravelles as replacements for aging piston-engined craft...
...permanent representative in the U.S., books tourists through a dozen major U.S. travel agencies and 50 associated agencies. Chief among them: American Express, which now has its own office in Moscow, and Manhattan's Cosmos Travel Bureau. Six Western European airlines (SAS, Finnair, Air France, KLM, Sabena and British European Airways) fly into Russia, occasional boat cruises ply the Black Sea, and tourists can even enter Russia in their own autos...
...were more effectively shaping it. In the drab industrial city of Essen last week, 18 young French labor leaders were learning at firsthand how labor-management relations are handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state...
Safety Air Seat. A new type of airline seat for protecting passengers in a crash has been adopted by Sabena Belgian World Airlines for use in its new Boeing 707 jets. The seat automatically tips backward on impact until the passenger's spine is nearly horizontal, thus putting his whole body in a better position to withstand the shock. Because of its lower center of gravity, the seat is also less likely to be ripped from the floor...