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Your Good Pen Pal. Last week, with a round-trip ticket and $350 extra in his best suit, some nylons and a musical powder box in his valise, and reporters and photographers surrounding him, Frank Hayostek boarded a plane to fly to his blue-eyed colleen...
...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
Both the airlines and the ship companies are offering reduced rates for student travel. As of May 1, the new transatlantic coach service will be put into operation. Round-trip fares are scheduled for; New York-London, $486; Amsterdam, $522; Copenhagen, $563.60; Paris, $522; Zurich, $563.60. Sponsors include almost every major line. Take your pick from Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, BOAC, Scandinavian Airways System, PAA, and T.W.A...
...United Air Lines, following a CAB suggestion, asked permission to cut its coast-to-coast coach fares from $110 to $99 eastbound and $88 westbound, with a $167 round-trip fare (v. $300 first class). It also asked for a new $24 coach rate between Chicago and New York. United's proposal, lowest transcontinental rate ever offered by a scheduled airline, came at the same time as National Airlines' request to cut its coach fare between New York and Miami from $53 to $43. T.W.A. also asked to cut fares...
...After a London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...