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摘要

They were an emblem of American optimism in the Eisenhower era. The cover of Life magazine for Apr. 8, 1957, featured "The Flying Blue Brothers," two blond, crew-cut Coloradans, fresh from their Yale University dorm rooms, piloting a Piper Tri-Pacer alone over the Andes. For nine pages inside, the brothers―Neal, 21, and Linden, 20―are seen cavorting with headhunters in the Amazon, trying to right their crashed plane on a mountain ice shelf, and later, lounging on Ipanema Beach with a comely brunette. The world, it seemed, was filled with possibilities. And for the Blue brothers, indeed it was.