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Such tie-ups have been the rule rather than the exception for the last two weeks at New York City airports. Flights from Europe have had to hold over the city for so long that they have been forced to go to Gander to refuel. Domestic flights from the West Coast to New York were placed in holding patterns as far away as Denver. One Northeast flight, originating from La Guardia, had to refuel after waiting on the ground for 2½ hours, resumed its place in line and waited two more hours before canceling. In a single day, Mohawk...
...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Maureen O'Hara, as Mother Goose, leads the gaggle in a musical gander at the pedagogical values of old nursery rhymes. Other participants in "Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?" include Frankie Avalon, Nancy Sinatra, Fred Clark, Rowan & Martin, Dick Shawn, Joanie Sommers and Margaret Hamilton...
Like many an out-of-towner visiting New York for the first time, pert Schoolgirl Linda Farmer headed straight for the cavernous Radio City Music Hall to see the big bash of a stage show. One gander at all those spangled chorines kicking away like a centipede with a hotfoot and she knew that she positively had to be a Rockette. Her qualifications were typical: head cheerleader at Hampton High in Hampton, Va., winner of the local Junior Miss contest, solo tap dancer at the Elks Club benefit and, most important, possessor of a great pair of gams...
...July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that flight, his passenger was his 72-year-old mother. "Watch out for that mountain," she remarked as they went past Mont Blanc a good 30 miles away...
...complete high-frequency radio rig ($3,000 to buy, $300 a month to rent), an extra-large gas tank ($50) and survival gear, including life raft, jackets and flares ($35 a trip to rent). Then there are airport landing and service fees that range from a piddling $25 at Gander to a horrendous $300 at the air base at Sondre Strom, Greenland. There is insurance ($40 a month)-and most companies will not even issue a policy to a pilot unless he has at least 1,000 hours in-air experience and is fully qualified for instrument flight...