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...during World War II, since 1953 has been in charge of all Air Force procurement and production. Capital's directors hope Baker's experience will help cure the line's financial stall (caused in some measure by Old Pilot Carmichael's overambitious purchase of 52 Viscount turboprops), push it back up to cruising speed...
...Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...
HOWARD HUGHES plans to manufacture French twin-jet Caravelles for T.W.A. at his Hughes Aircraft Co. plant in Culver City, Calif. He will also buy 15 British-built Vickers Viscount four-engined turboprops for T.W.A...
Short, plump and natty in a tan gabardine suit, Nuri asSaid, 13 times Prime Minister of Iraq, stepped down jauntily from his Vickers Viscount. His lips slightly parted, his hooded eyes darting back and forth as if not to miss a detail, he looked almost as if he were tasting the happy occasion...
...mule-team caravan with 72 other boys bound for the academy, he traveled 27 days across bandit-infested desert to Alexandretta and caught the boat for Constantinople. In all it was a 40-day trip that Nuri now makes in less than four hours by Iraqi-piloted Viscount...