Similar delays, for varying reasons, were affecting at least a hundred flights of twenty other airlines using Lincoln International. The food snafu would make it later stiff. United's Flight I I I-a non-stop DC-8 for Los Angeles, which the food truck was to service-was already several hours behind schedule.
A search for the truck-in driving snow and darkness-had so far failed to locate either the missing vehicle or its driver. A United Air Lines food truck, loaded with two hundred dinners, was lost and presumably snowbound somewhere on the airport perimeter. Now, like pustules on a battered, weakened body, trouble spots were erupting steadily. The airport was reeling-as was the entire Midwestern United States-from the meanest, roughest winter storm in half a dozen years. (CST) At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty. Published simultaneousI.I, in the United States ond Caloult, For information address: Doubledu ' y & Couipanv, Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. br Mimeograph or anI, other ineans without perinission. tnav not he reproduced in whole or in part. Januai-), 1970 loth printing Ilth printing All rights reserved. June 1968 9th printing October 1968 10th printing October 1968 Excerpt appeared in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE March 1968 Literarv Guild edition published April 1968 Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club edition published April 1968 Dollar Book Club edition published Januari, 1969 Bantain edition published Jul " v 1969 2nd printing. …… March 1968 6th printing Juh, 1968 3rd printing. PRINTING HISTORY Doubleday edition published March 1968 2nd printing. A Beintam Book / published It I, arrangernent with Doubleda), & Company, Inc.