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...same holds true for the domestic jet operators. Using leased Pan American 707s. National Airlines has boosted its New York-Florida business impressively, with load factors of 95% southbound, 85% northbound, has already carried 35,000 passengers by jet since mid-December. American Airlines, with five 707s operating across the U.S. nonstop to Los Angeles, reported a 96.2% load factor v. the average 66%. The nine Lockheed Electra turboprops delivered so far boast average loads of nearly 80% on nights from New York to Chicago and Detroit. Together, the two jet-powered craft boosted American's February business...
Broken Field. In Toledo, Taxi Driver Elmer Bittow was convicted of drunken driving after sheepishly admitting that he had driven his cab 26 miles south down the northbound lane of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...
...Eden pleaded that Britain wanted to keep the canal open. The day of Israel's invasion a record northbound convoy of 36 ships moved through the canal. By the time British-French troops landed, the canal was blocked and will be for "several" months...