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Tall, rugged (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) Johnny Meyer is no wild-blue-yonder flyboy. A married man and a Dartmouth graduate (specialties: geopolitics, lacrosse, swimming), he is of the new Air Force breed: a cool, workaday airman who talks in terms of "considered audacity" and is proud that in his 2,500 hours of flying he has never washed out or damaged a ship...
...colony's 9,500 British remained comfortable and undisturbed. Weekends the bay fluttered with the sails of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's racers. Workaday officials calmly planned home leaves a year in advance...
Persons such as Lee Rosen would evidently be content to live their workaday lives . . . ignorant of the world-shaking and heartbreaking events that are taking place in the Far East today. Such attitudes are greatly responsible for the wretched state of affairs the world is in today...
...company manuals, collected his paycheck ($13,000 a year) and logged his day's flight for the last time. "I don't want to quit flying," he admitted. "No flyer ever will." But Heath Proctor, who had watched the airlines graduate from a risky adventure to a workaday routine, had passed his 60th birthday-the first man on any U.S. airline ever to reach retirement age while still a pilot...
...best, the movie is an absorbing, human documentary of the airborne supply of a Soviet-blockaded Berlin.* It spins the hard facts smoothly into what is essentially a story of individual Americans and Germans. It catches the raillery and workaday heroism of the U.S. air crews, as well as some sharp vignettes, both grim and comic, of life in a broken, hungry city. Its camera work does full justice to the brooding ruins of Berlin and to graceful C-545 gliding dangerously down to a fog-shrouded Tempelhof field...