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Gill, Douglas
1964
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do the same. It was a day off for everyone, but Phil Humphrey was
there so I talked to him about grad school, and he heartily recommended
University of Michigan head and shoulders over everywhere else. We
were to catch the limousine to the airport (Friendship airport serving
Baltimore) at 10:50, and Pete and Fred still had showed by 10:15.
Finally it 10:25 they came and we hurriedly threw there things to gether.
The elevator operator would carry our stuff ("she wouldn't carry
freight), had to go down to the ground floor to check with a guard.
Finally we got outside, I hailed a cab, the others returned the carts
we had carried our stuff on. The drivver didn't know where Friendship
airport was, so I had to go asking people how to get there. We loaded
our stuff in and headed out to the airport directly because it was too
late to catch the limousine. On the way out the cab ran out of oil.
So we unloaded our stuff beside the highway. Fred ran over to a
shopping center and got a new cab. We raced out to the airport, but
arrived at 12:05. Our plane had left. The United People got new
tickets the Honolulu via TWA and Pan Am. We ate a quick lunch of
hot dogs boarded our jet andtook off. The jet is really cool: it
cruised at 35,000 feet. We paid a dollar to see an in-flight movie,
"The Pink Panther," staring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and others. It
was really stupid. We flew over the Grand Canyon which was neat. We'
landed in Los Angeles at 5 EDT, or 8 PDT. After strolling around the
airport for birds, we left on Pan Am two hours later and flew for five
hours. I slept most of the way. Coming over Honolulu at night was a
beautiful sight. We landed and were greeted by the commercial greeters,
but we shunned then. Doug Hackman and Dr. Ely met us at the airport