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...biggest boom yet of the supersonic age hit only last week, when a four-jet B58 Hustler streaked nonstop from Los Angeles to New York and back in a record-smashing 4 hr. 42 min., at an overall average of 1,044.3 m.p.h...
...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
...high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver, he has produced a sometimes beWildered, often wonderfully funny exercise in nonstop nuttiness...
...they fly along the beach that human bird watchers erroneously decided that coastline following was standard bird procedure. The Truro radar sometimes showed conspicuous angels moving out to sea at a 40-knot speed. These proved to be dense flocks of sandpipers, plovers, and other shore birds starting nonstop flights to the West Indies or South America...
...Jango washed down cold cuts with red wine by candlelight. Still in darkness, the plane set down in Brother-in-Law Brizzola's Porto Alegre stronghold. Brizzola introduced him as "chief of the armed forces and leader of all Brazilians," then was drowned out by ten minutes of nonstop cheering and shouts of "Jango! Jango!" from 35,000 frenzied spectators. Home was the President-though still in name only...