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...airport, which is hit almost daily, American-owned DC-8s scream down the runway hourly and trundle up in front of the small passenger terminal, where they disgorge up to 45 tons of ammunition each. Across the field, camouflaged American C-130s buzz in and out every 20 minutes with loads of ammunition, while little Cambodian air force two-seater T-28s dart in and out from their bombing runs...
Most of the troops make the flight to the West Coast in chartered commercial DC-8s and 707s that can carry up to 250 G.I.s at a time. Such carriers as Pan Am, TWA and Flying Tiger are being paid a total of $6,000,000 to aid the 60-day withdrawal operation. U.S. Air Force jet transports are also being used to help carry the 23,700 troops home. Actually, the job is far less difficult than the massive earlier withdrawal of troops; more than 70,000 men, for example, were pulled out in a two-month period early...
...owner of Lady Madonna,* Richard Tiefer, 28, was head of a trucking company two years ago when his newly pregnant wife Joanne discovered that "even the best stores had those old-lady, bonded fabrics, and even the size 8s were huge." Joanne took to her sewing machine and soon turned out a swinging maternity wardrobe that had her friends pleading for their...
...better shape. Its St. Louis complex will be kept busy producing the F-15 fighter, a contract that could eventually be worth $8 billion. But in the company's California plants, employment has dropped from 71,000 to 56,000, reflecting space cutbacks and dwindling orders for DC-8s and DC-9s. Grumman, despite a contract with a potential value of $5 billion to build the Navy's Mach 2 F-14 fighter plane, expects to lay off 1,200 engineers this year...
...best-known director, Charles Lindbergh, Halaby says: "Slim Lindbergh and I were sitting in the 747, and we decided to list the greatest civil air transports of all time. We picked the German JU-52, the DC-3, the DC-6, the 707 family of jets, the DC-8s ?and this airplane...