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...Next day the three castaways thumbed a ride in a passing launch (full of tourists) and were taken to Butiaba, on the shore of Lake Albert. The Hemingways climbed into another plane-which not only crashed but burned on the takeoff. Again they escaped serious harm: Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck...
Last, in the crowded Columbine, came Dwight D. Eisenhower. A bandage decked one hand where, on the night before takeoff, he nicked it while showing Mamie how the Westerners once fanned their six-guns. With him came confident and well-prepared Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a squad of experts (surprise among them: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Dayton, Ohio, Major William T. Whisner Jr., 29, flashed his F-86F Sabre-jet past the finish line 3 hrs. 5 min. 25 sec. after his takeoff from Muroc, Calif, to win the 1953 Bendix Trophy race by 4"8 sec. His average speed for 1,900 miles: 603.547 m.p.h., some 50 m.p.h. faster than the record...
...last week as the EUR-124 Globemaster, biggest of the Air Force's transport craft, lumbered to the end of the runway. Visibility was a safe 2½ miles, and the 122 Air Force and Army passengers chatted easily as the massive, two-deck plane made a perfect takeoff...
...crowd of some 30,000 watched intently as, one after another, the field of 100-odd jumpers came soaring off the takeoff. Some of the jumpers windmilled their arms awkwardly in trying to keep balance (and lost form points); others misjudged their take-off timing (and lost distance points). Some of the best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers...