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...qualify by lapping "safely" around the oval 8.5-mile course-which meant at 350 m.p.h. or so. Then each would fly three 85-mile heats against varied opposition, winning points for his standing in each heat. So far, so good. But there was one catch: Promoter Bill Stead, 40, insisted that the pilots take off and land on a dirt runway located in front of the grandstand and the TV cameras. The pilots rebelled, insisted on using the paved runways at Reno Airport instead; the dirt, they said, was unsafe. Oh yeah? growled Stead, whereupon he qualified his own Bearcat...
...seven MIGs) Bob Love averaged 410 m.p.h. -only to be placed third for cutting over three pylons, completely missing another. Then California's Darryl Greenameyer won his first heat, beating Slovak by 10 m.p.h.-and disqualified himself by landing on Reno's paved runway instead of Stead's dirt. Not that Greenameyer didn't try. Stripped of practically everything, including landing flaps, his silver Bearcat hippity-hopped all over the runway until he frantically poured on the power and took off again. Landing safely at Reno, Greenameyer muttered: "I'm going to pick...
...lives in a Scarsdale mansion in stead of a London flat, and never ever packs a shoulder-bolstered Walther PPK automatic. But there is more than a soupçon of the fictional counterspy in trim, urbane Nicholas Deak, who is the James Bond of the world of money...
...ground in Florida, Johnson got extra-heavy protection that included a helicopter hovering 75 ft. over his limousine, with two armed security men in the open door. For the return flight, the same three 707s awaited at Home stead Air Force Base near Miami. The President hurried onto one and all three taxied to the runway. With him, as they had been on the flight down, were his wife and daughters. As the planes went they weaved in and out among one another, making it almost impossible to tell which plane was Johnson's. Aloft, the 707s picked...
...precedent-shattering move, Pope Paul VI jets to Kennedy International Airport in order to open the Vatican Pavilion, but when his limousine is delayed in traffic, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, presides in his stead. Richard Nixon, pausing to chat with reporters at the opening of the Nixon Pavilion, hints that his personal advisory staff is drafting a final report...