Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boling planned the flight for nine months, spent part of his time checking charts and part learning to stay awake 48 hours at a stretch. His 250-h.p. plane was fitted with auxiliary wingtip tanks to provide an extra 124 gal. of gas (he consumed all but eleven), and with a special horn. Horn's function: to blow every hour, prevent his falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried...
...m.p.h., Boling swung routinely above Okinawa and Japan, jumped the ocean to the Aleutians. There he ran into his only trouble. When the wingtip tanks unaccountably began to lose fuel, and the engine coughed in the cold, Boling began running over his ditching check list. Then he decided to stay with the plane. He dropped to 1,500 ft.; when the engine purred again, he flew confidently on. Approaching the Pendleton airport he radioed a single request: permission to land without circling because...
...Degree of Worry. Was a U.N. summit session doomed to be held in a cave of winds, reverberating with propaganda and with each side eager only to put the other in the dock, and to stay out of the dock itself? The West might be prepared to come to terms with Pan-Arabism, but knew no way and had no desire to come to terms with a Nasserism founded on anti-Westernism, buoyed up by Soviet arms, spreading inflammatory lies, preaching assassination. The British might warn Khrushchev, as Anthony Eden in a moment of crisis did once before, that British...
...unresolved bickering for three months, few in Beirut believed that the election of President Camille Chamoun's successor would be held on schedule last week. But the U.S. troop landings had shocked all Lebanese into a new sense of urgency. Under the implied threat that troops might otherwise stay indefinitely, U.S. five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, Ike's special envoy, performed his good offices among the warring factions with characteristically persuasive art (and then tactfully left town on polling day). All knew, and had long known, that there was only one possible figure on whom government and rebel...
...palace Chamoun quickly announced-with President-elect Chehab's evident concurrence-that he would stay in office until his term ends in September, and that Chehab would meanwhile remain army commander. The opposition repeated its demands that U.S. forces withdraw and that Chamoun resign at once, and cynically backed up its threats to continue the rebellion until these demands are met, by setting off a pair of bombs near Parliament next afternoon. Score: 2 dead, 15 wounded...