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...days of jet and rocket power, aviation's headline-getters usually fly worlds faster, farther and higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca...
Married. Westbrook Pegler, 64, terrible-tempered Old Guard newspaper columnist; and Pearl Wiley Doane, 47, an energetic worker in Los Angeles Republican politics; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1955), she for the third; in Manhattan...
...Made final preparations to fly to the Western Big Four foreign ministers' meeting this week in Paris. As a final note he invited the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat Fulbright, Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley-to accompany him to next month's foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R. at Geneva. Fulbright was skeptical, since he regards the foreign ministers' meeting as a working-level session, but hinted broadly that he would like to go to the summit...
...bypass is the only major seaway works in U.S. territory. Going upstream from Lake St. Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
...taken out by the students. For example, among the books that I suggest is "Tomorrow's Food," by James Rorty and N. P. Norman, M.D. A large number of Rorty's books can be taken out, but this one is at the Medical School Library. So is Harvey Wiley's "History of a Crime." All his many other books can be taken out. Many books of Upton Sinclair are listed, only one can not be read, "The Art of Health...