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...dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
Count de Gastyne, Marquis de St. Maur and Viscount de Montauriant, fought with the French underground in his teens, and in 1947 came to the U.S., where his dazzling piano-playing soon won him scholarship grants at the University of Portland and the Eastman School of Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester...
Chopsticks & Champagne. To expand and modernize the line, Hymans spent $53 million on new Lockheed Constellations. Vickers Viscount turboprops, lumbering Breguet transports for 106-passenger coach flights. He and his operating chiefs are fanatics on safety, have suffered no fatal crashes since 1953. All Air France's first pilots are million-mile men, are paid up to $15,400 a year (more than the President of the Republic). Every mechanic is winnowed through a special four-year course, gets three more years of on-the-job training...
Your article gives belated praise to the Viscount and to the Rolls-Royce Conway and Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engines. But what about the license agreements in the U.S. for eight other British power plants ? . . . Your article does not mention the hundreds of smaller feeder aircraft. It is silent on the many military aircraft that have been supplied in a steady stream to our own R.A.F. and foreign air forces throughout the world...
...Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass jet engine, in which part of the air is passed around the combustion chambers directly into the tail cone, thus producing greater, more economical thrust, is highly praised by U.S. engineers. The Vickers Viscount airliner now flying on U.S. air routes has done so well that some 240 have been sold. Vickers is currently working on a bigger model called the Vanguard...