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...past four weeks, the bleakness of the French Sahara 450 miles south of Algiers has been illuminated night and day by a billowing, 450-ft. torch of flame. Visible for 90 miles and roaring like a dozen jetliners at takeoff, the fire is consuming the riches of the recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field at the staggering rate of 30 million cu. ft. a day-enough gas to meet the average daily requirements of Tucson, Ariz...
Shortly after 4 p.m., Hammarskjold and his party of 15 climbed aboard the Albertina, a white DC-6 used by the U.N. in the Congo. Hammarskjold's main concern, on takeoff, was ominous: his plane had to cross territory controlled by a marauding Katanga jet fighter known as "The Lone Ranger." The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N. Katanga Commander Conor Cruise O'Brien in Elisabethville...
Last week the 34 boys gathered at London airport in striped school ties and dark blue blazers. They were temporarily disappointed when the twin-engined Vickers Viking charter plane, christened "Papa Mike." taxied out for takeoff, then had to return for new spark plugs in one engine. Finally, after a five-hour delay, the plane got away...
...bullet between Second Officer Simmons' feet. "Things are getting desperate on this plane," Rickards told the tower. "We've got to have fuel." The purposefully dawdling ground crew quickly filled the tanks, unhooked the line. As the big engines screamed and the plane taxied toward a takeoff, a motorcade of lawmen suddenly raced out of their hiding places and poured a fusillade of machine-gun and rifle bullets into the undercarriage. The 707 jerked to a stop, its eight tires flattened (see cut) and the No. 2 engine knocked...
...will come out of the "clutch" stage this year? Most Detroiters bet on no auto strike in 1961. Most of them also agree that, with the public eye focused sharply on the negotiations, prospects are good for a final settlement that will not touch off a new wage-price takeoff...