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...some would say director--as a man who always strove to prove that "man's humanity to man is far greater than his inhumanity to man." Then, after a film clip melange predictably slapped together by Peter boy-do-I-know-films Bogdanovich. Chaplin emerged from the same stage cockpit as the first gargantuan statue which Joel Grey had serenaded with an ode to the studios in the opening number...
Before the week was out, one TWA plane, sitting empty in AP Las Vegas, was blasted apart. Another in New York was narrowly saved when a bomb in the cockpit was defused just minutes before detonation. Dynamite was found on a United Air Lines flight into Seattle. And, in a fourth incident not disclosed by the Government, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin learned that two plastique explosive devices were concealed in spray cans aboard a United 727. The cans were discovered when a federal agent searching a suspected suitcase noticed a can of Right Guard and of Noxzema seemed too heavy...
...from New York for Los Angeles. The plane hurried back to Kennedy Airport and was emptied; then two sniffer dogs trained to smell out explosives boarded the ship. It was their first live test, and one of them located the device almost immediately in a briefcase in the cockpit, only twelve minutes before it was due to go off. That was scary enough, but the explosion that ripped through the forward section of a TWA 707 in Las Vegas was more frightening for another reason. The plane, which had landed from New York seven hours before, had been searched three...
...those crashes have been blamed for his later reclusiveness. He first grew a mustache while recovering from the XF-11 crash because the burns he had suffered made shaving painful. For all his feats. Hughes is regarded as a second-rate flyer by some pilots who have shared a cockpit with...
Within minutes, a 740 m.p.h. Czechoslovak air force MIG 17 was on his tail. When the pilot fired a poorly aimed cannon burst, Bezak turned and put the Zlin into a steep 4,000-ft. dive. As G forces slapped his sons against the cockpit canopy, his wife Marie, 27, shouted, "It's all up! We'd better go back." Instead, Bezak watched as the MIG frantically circled to make another firing run, and banked the plane as if he were obeying the air force pilot's unmistakable signal to return. Suddenly, Bezak turned again and slipped...