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Production of Boeing's 707 jet transport is racing eight months ahead of schedule, and certification is going along so smoothly that the first planes will start hauling passengers barely four months from now. By the end of the year, American Airlines President C. R. Smith and Pan American Boss Juan T. Trippe plan to have eleven jets in the air. The trouble is that the U.S. airways are not-and will not be-ready to mix the 550-m.p.h. jets with 350-m.p.h. piston planes in real safety...
...onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives in Sleetmute (pop. 120) on the Kuskokwim River, where English-speaking Eskimos still attend Sleetmute's Russian Orthodox Church. Pilots transport Fairbanks Attorney Ed Merdes, 32, head of the Alaskan Junior Chamber of Commerce, who periodically visits club chapters in such places as Metlakahtla, south of Ketchikan. And they see, day after day, the strengthened heart of a people willing to challenge new frontiers...
...find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France plane), their first act was to surrender...
Pilot Pope was clearly not the only U.S. flier involved in Indonesia's civil war. From Zamboanga, in the southern Philippines, last week came word that during March and April some 20 transport planes had touched down at the dirt airport to refuel and continue on their way to or from rebel-held Menado. The planes reportedly had Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats...
...thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, flew transports over Dien-bienphu in the Indo-China...