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...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...
...airplane aloft that morning was a sleek, four-engined DC-7B, newly completed at the Douglas plant in Santa Monica and destined for delivery to Continental Air Lines. The $2,000,000 airliner had been lifted skyward on its maiden flight by Test Pilot William Carr, 36, for a trial turn over the Pacific at 10,000 ft., then back in a climbing arch over the valley to 25,000 ft. The four-man crew logged a routine test. Twice Santa Monica's Clover Field received position reports radioed by Copilot Archie Twitchell, 51, whose 34 years of flying...
...blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache and indignation, the people of Chamonix gazed aloft, muttered about laws to prevent off-season climbing, and gazed hopefully at the local guides, who refused to budge. "Their action was voluntary," said the guides. "Even to save two men, you can't risk the lives of ten or 15 rescuers with wives and children...
...seen in television; the reason is that the palette is in the hands of artists. Even though it loses much as black-and-white viewing, the show's appeal is unique in current programing. Its light comic touch, in both content and style, keeps the most fragile whimsy aloft and should start adults elbowing children for space in front of the set. In fact, its one flaw may be that in reaching adults it loses the younger of the young...
While a band played and an American Legion color guard clicked to attention, a flag was sent proudly aloft last week in a newly paved Florida plaza named for Betsy Ross, U.S. seamstress and upholsterer.* The ceremony marked the official opening of "Salhaven," a multimillion-dollar retirement community for Betsy Ross's latter-day followers, the Upholsterers International Union...