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Within an hour, Stevenson, one of his law partners, his press secretary, a bone specialist and Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, his former wife's mother, were on the way to Goshen in a chartered plane. The next day, the weary and worn father rode in an ambulance with his son the 115 miles to a Chicago hospital, where the boy's mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes...
About the health of the President of the U.S., Dr. Paul Dudley White, the heart specialist, was optimistic. He had studied the clinical reports from last fortnight's searching party at Walter Reed Hospital, conferred with his physician colleagues on the case. Last week at Gettysburg he made his own extensive examination, and, as has become his custom, made a report of his findings...
Meanwhile, Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...
...What Airplane?" On the sea, luck awaited him. A fishing boat commanded by Art Berkell, a former Navy rescue specialist, was within 100 yards, and a fleet of Coast Guard auxiliary craft was maneuvering near by. Berkell started toward Pilot Smith even before he hit the water, and had him out in 50 seconds. He was semiconscious, partly delirious. "Anyone else in the airplane?" asked Berkell. "What airplane?" replied Smith...
...PROSPECTORS will soon start looking for oil and minerals in Yemen, one of the last undeveloped Middle East nations. A new Washington company, headed by Walter S. Gabler, foreign-investment specialist, and Presidential Crony George E. Allen, has obtained exclusive exploration rights for six years...