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There was small cause for alarm when United Air Lines Pilot John Grosso reported, ten minutes out of Denver, that his Los Angeles-bound DC-8, with 122 persons aboard, had lost most of the pressure in its hydraulic system. The landing gear would still drop into place and lock. Once on the runway, Grosso might not be able to maneuver the steerable nose wheel, but reverse engine thrust would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could...
...leaves like a streak of new blood; to know again that water has taste as well as temperature, to drink sloppily and desperately because his mouth is dry and his tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails and to know the relief of rest; to climb high along the creature trails, grabbing suddenly for a fall-saving hold on a limb...
...British public argued, the government cautiously shifted into low gear. Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys set off for successive visits to New Zealand, Australia and Canada to explain Macmillan's Common Market thinking-and listen to objections and suggestions for riders to be attached to Britain's conditions of entry. Meeting in London last week, the Outer Seven nervously agreed to stick together in wooing the Six to prevent anyone's jumping the gun-but also agreed that no single nation could veto the marriage if the terms suited everybody else...
Businessmen who have wondered when -if ever-those "Soaring Sixties" would finally begin to soar got a bullish answer last week from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. Said Dillon: ''It is probable that by this time next year, our economy will be in high gear. We may well be in the midst of an economic boom...
...hard-boiled a disciplinarian as exists in the high command of the U.S. armed forces. But he is renowned for backing his men when they make understandable mistakes-so long as the same mistake is never made twice. Off duty, he carries long-range, single-side-band ham radio gear on trips, collects guns, drives a Mercedes 3005L and hunts big game...