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Barber's men drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...
...away, United Air Lines DC-7 Flight 736, with a crew of five and 42 passengers, sped along Airway Victor Eight, bound from Los Angeles for Denver at about 305 knots. The Civil Aeronautics Authority, controlling the airliner, had no knowledge of the jet; the Nellis A.F.B. tower, controlling the jet, knew nothing of the airliner. The jet, in penetrating the lower altitudes, had to break through the commercial airlane- as military aircraft do all the time. Only wild chance could bring the two planes together...
...paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis was hustled away. Said she: "The Prince seemed so informal among the ponies and crowds. I thought it would be all right." Said an embassy spokesman: "She has only been here three months-but she should have known better...
Racing under the fast conditions of flat water and an eight-mile tail wind, the varsity sped over the mile and three-quarters Lake Carnegie course in 8:40.6. The previous record of 8:41.4 was set by Cornell...
FAST-SELLING RAMBLER, which sped from twelfth to seventh place in car production during first quarter, will boost output 10% to 660 cars...