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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sake of safety and schedule, the full presidential fleet that takes off this week will be made up of four aircraft (plus a chartered Pan American 707 jet for the press); two VC-137A plush versions of the Boeing 707 jet-the President's and an identical spare-and two turboprop MATS Hercules cargo planes carrying six skilled mechanics apiece and a variety of spare parts, including a complete, ready-to-install jet engine. The two cargo planes are assigned a leapfrogging schedule that will keep one of them always one stop ahead of the President. Eight specially trained...
...hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three stewards (who always check with Draper to make sure that the plane is not headed for turbulent weather before they serve the President his meals). All carry printed cards listing special emergency procedures, and all frequently (and unobtrusively) run through emergency drills. Draper...
Atop the windswept roof of Manhattan's United Nations headquarters one afternoon two years ago, four men clustered solemnly around a portable incinerator. A tall, somber-faced U.N. political officer named Povl Bang-Jensen dropped three sealed envelopes into the flames, watched intently as the documents withered into ashes...
...morning last week, two men walking their dogs in a wooded park two miles from Bang-Jensen's Long Island home came across Bang-Jensen's body sprawled beside a leaf-strewn bridle path, a bullet hole in his temple. Near by lay a stubby, .25-cal. automatic. In his pocket police found a farewell note addressed to his wife. The police verdict: suicide.* Said the Danish newspaper Information: "This is murder, in whatever way it happened...