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...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
...United's Salt Lake City office, Radio Operator Ken Thorton tried to call the blazing DC-6. No answer. Five minutes later, he picked up another message from Captain McMillen: "United 608. Our tail is gone. We may get down and we may not." A minute later, a third message: "United 608. We may make it. We may make it. Approaching strip...
...giant four-motored DC-6 which had taken off from Los Angeles at 9:23 a.m., two hours before, bound for New York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L. McMillen, had discovered the fire, he had reversed his course, headed back over southwestern Utah's jagged Bryce Canyon country, to an emergency strip 20 miles away...
...Captain McMillen didn't make it. The big plane, last seen in flight by a deer hunter who reported that its undersides were aflame and that it was dropping unidentifiable objects, managed to skim over the precipitous wall of a canyon. But then, just 1,500 yards short of the airstrip, it crashed, churned 300 feet up a sage-covered slope, exploded and disintegrated. Nobody survived; nobody could have. Among those who died: Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look; Pro Footballer Jeff Burkett, Chicago Cardinals' halfback; Gerard B. Lambert Jr., scion of a famed drug dynasty (see MILESTONES...
Illinois' 19th District chose an unopposed Republican, Attorney Rolla C. McMillen of Decatur, to fill a Congressional vacancy last week. As a result, for the first time since 1931, the Democrats now lack an actual majority in the House. The 435 seats are split almost 50-50: Democrats (216), Republicans (212), American-Laborite (1), Farmer-Laborite (1), Progressives (2), and three vacancies...