A wartime Pan Am flight memory by a veteran journalist
London Memoir recalls the 1942 Pan American Boeing 314 crossing the Atlantic during wartime. The author, Robert Musel, notes delays, shared experiences with 46 fellow passengers and crew, and a dramatic Lisbon dive before a late arrival. He contrasts wartime peril with modern routine transatlantic flights.
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London
UPI
Kennedy
New York
Heathrow
Atlantic
Pan American Boeing
Britain
Petersburg’s First Road Built by Russian Engineer Demens
The initial road into the Town of Saint Petersburg Florida was completed in 1888 by Peter Demens, a Russian engineer, marking the town’s early transportation expansion.
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Saint Petersburg
Fla
Peter Demens
Micro and Midi Fashion Weigh The Year 1967
In 1967 fashion split between micro mini skirts and midi hemlines mid calf. Beene cited designer fatigue with a single proportion as a reason for trend shifts. The year saw a revival of shirts and turtlenecks and a move to bolder hosiery and boots as skirts rose. Austria exports about one third of its industrial output.
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New York
UPI
John F. Kennedy
White House
Johnson
Geoffrey Beene
Lynda Bird Johnson
Robert and
Edward Kennedy
Lynda’s
Chuck
Mrs. Kennedy
Brigitte Bardot
Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper
Amanda Burden
London
Beene
Austria
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Ford
Washington, D.C
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Percy
Lincoln
Hubert Humphrey
By Robert Musel
East River
Bermuda
Azores
Lisbon
la Crosse
5 Selves
Winston Churchill
Tagus
Pittsburgh PA
Copeland
By Gay Pauley
Lord Snowdon
Princess Margaret
Eric Hoffer
America
la Crosse Tribune
NSP
Gambles
Pearl St
Wisconsin
Caledonia St
B. F. Goodrich CO
6Th & State Sts
la Crosse, Wisconsin
Goodyear Service Store
KMART
State Rd
Maytag & Home
Montgomery Ward
Courthouse Square
Power CO
St. Ave. N
la Cr
Roellig’s, Inc
Main St
Sears-Roebuck & CO
Tausche’s Hardware
4Th St
Village Shopping Center
Wis
Onalaska
Wiggert Bros
Jay St
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