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After weeks of fruitless negotiation, 1,200 American pilots belonging to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association went out on strike to protect the long-standing eight-hour rule. The well-paid airmen ($19,000 a year for a first pilot) claimed that the extra flying time was a threat...
BOAC is buying eight used Boeing Stratocruisers and seven used Lockheed Constellations to replace its grounded fleet of De Havilland Comets. Newest clue to the cause of the Comet's trouble: pressure tests on a Comet fuselage reportedly caused it to split along one side, indicating that it will...
A month ahead of schedule, Boeing Airplane Co.'s big four-jet tanker, the 707, was rolled out last week at Renton, Wash. The 707, which can be converted into a commercial liner, will have a cruising speed of 550 m.p.h., about 100 miles faster than the grounded British...
Perry's only "bad" inning was the ninth, when he was supported by an infield as jittery as he. Bill Cleary, the first batter, grounded to the shortstop, Don Prohovich, who was unable to field it cleanly. It went as an error. Ned Felton, batting for Don Butters, forced Cleary...
A blessing on TIME'S April 12 article on the H-bomb . . . The religious tone of the article was pleasantly surprising, and points to the trouble we seem to be in today ... It may be that the ultimate destiny of man is fast being revealed . . If today's...