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Clear skies ahead, and an airline record of 228,580,804 miles flown without accident, helped make the Cairo take-off of Trans World Airlines' Flight No. 903, Bombay to New York via Rome, a routine matter. With no indication of trouble ahead, Veteran Pilot Walton Webb took the big Constellation Star of Maryland off Farouk Field just before dawn and headed northwest...
...three stars. "Son, I'll take this load," said LeMay. "Go and tell your dispatcher-and if he lets the other end know I'm coming he'll get hell from me." LeMay flew into Berlin, unloaded, then took his place in the take-off waiting line for 40 minutes...
...Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
Both the Air Force and industry clamped down on specific details of orders, quantities and types of planes to be produced. The take-off signal was flashed to 200 planemakers and suppliers. The biggest orders undoubtedly were earmarked for the companies now in biggest production: Boeing, whose order backlog ($336 million) is already the industry's largest, will step up production of B-47 jet bombers and C-97 transports; Consolidated Vultee (backlog: $250 million) its B-36 bombers. Douglas (backlog: $216 million) will get bigger orders for its C124 transports for the Air Force and its Navy...
...life to tired businessmen-and God knows what to such as are not tired. Otherwise, Peep Show's cupboard is almost as bare as its chorines. The skits, which Bobby Clark staged but did not act in, are mostly ancient and frightful. The one exception: an almost hilarious take-off on The Cocktail Party. Only a little less crushing than the sketches are the more monumental of the spectacles. One of these dramatizes a song called Blue Night by a songwriter called Bhumibol in the program but "Your Majesty" in Siam, where he is the newly crowned, 22-year...