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Delegates were far more likely to forget their conference disputes than the fantastic Babylon-in-Brazil in which their sessions had been held. The Swiss-styled Quitandinha Hotel sits in a fogbound mountain valley with little to see but man-made pools, lawns, terraces and a horse ring. Syrup-slow dining-room service had queered routine entertaining. Bar prices ($2.45 for a Scotch) dried up most sociable drinking. Griped Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates...
...radar is being installed in the planes of Trans World Airline (Howard Hughes, chief stockholder), but Hughes promises to make it available to all airlines at cost. Though it can be set to give a special warning at 500 ft. (useful in approaching a fogbound airport or coming down through a low ceiling), it is not intended as a complete blind-landing device. Its chief usefulness is for flying between airports: if developed a year ago, it might have prevented several disasters when airplanes in thick weather hit unexpected "terrain...
...morning last week two ships weighed anchor at Three Rivers, where they had been fogbound, and raced up the St. Lawrence River. A few hours later, flying Canadian Pacific's red & white checkered flag, the black-hulled, 10,000-ton cargo liner S.S. Beaverburn steamed into Montreal harbor and tied up at Shed 8. Her skipper, John Bissett Smith, had brought in the first ocean-going ship of the season, and thus officially opened Montreal harbor for 1947 business. For some 125 years, the master of the spring's first overseas ship has been given a gold-headed...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...
Almost 2,000 miles to the west, British carriers from .across the Indian Ocean flew off aircraft to blast the Pangkalanbrandan refinery on Sumatra. Northeast, 3,000 miles from Luzon, a U.S. Ninth Fleet task force stood in to the fogbound coast of Paramushiro, where the Japs' Kuril Islands nudge Soviet Kamchatka, and laid heavy fire on harbor installations at Suribachi...