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These losses should serve as propaedeutic. To let such precious landmarks slip away unheeded would seem a sad mistake; Boston, proud of her past, might look again before she shoves what remains of it into seeling night...
There was speculation, too, about an inherent vice in all swept-wing jets-the tendency to yaw, or slip sidewise. Sometimes, in yawing, the jets nearly roll over in a frightening phenomenon pilots call the "Dutch roll"-and eyewitness reports suggested that American One might have done just that. Two of the four previous fatal 707 crashes were attributed to yaw (the fifth fatal 707 crash, of a Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately...
...Show the World. So far, the F.L.N., has maintained control in the casbahs, preventing any wild outpouring of Moslem mobs. But last week discipline was beginning to slip. Excited by the daytime fasting required by the month-long celebration of Ramadan, infuriated by bombings and indiscriminate killing, the Moslems were beginning to strike back with mass violence of their own. That is precisely the aim of the S.A.O., which hopes to goad the Moslems into a full-scale racial war; in that event the S.A.O. feels confident that the French army will side with the Europeans. The terrorists also hope...
...With the camera suspended as though on an invisible shelf, Glenn went on with other work, then reached back and plucked the camera out of the air. Only once was there any difficulty. Preparing to change film, Glenn let the roll slip out of his fingers. He grabbed for it, but "instead of clamping onto it, I batted it and it went sailing off around behind the instrument panel, and that was the last...
Three in Nine. In World War II, Glenn flew 59 ground-support missions in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. After the war, he developed a cocksure method of demonstrating his flying skill. Says Marine Lieut. Colonel John Mason: "Johnny would fly up alongside you and slip his wing right under yours, then tap it gently against your wingtip. I've never seen such a smooth pilot...