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...Force Brigadier General Tkach (pronounced Ta-kosh), the procedure was routine. Whether the journey is to Amarillo or to Asia, Tkach and his staff investigate medical facilities in advance to make sure that they can offer proper care to the President. The doctors also plot the most direct route from any point on the itinerary to the nearest hospital. Tkach is satisfied that Nixon's health will be well protected in China. "We feel safer on this one than on most," he says. "We feel security will be very good, and I think their medical practice and capability...
...been forced to continue buying helium in the same quantities as were needed when it was a monopoly seller, though it has fewer customers to sell it to. Result: it has acquired a massive oversupply of the gas. The stockpile rests in a huge cavern twelve miles northwest of Amarillo, Texas. So far, 28.5 billion cubic feet of helium have been pumped into the natural storage area, and more goes in daily. In all, the Government spends about $48 million annually to buy the gas. Says John F. O'Leary, former Bureau of Mines director, who first brought...
Neither team had easy going. On the second day out, as Caltech's Rippel approached Seligman, Ariz., he downshifted at 40 m.p.h. and heard a sickening crunch. Twenty-three hours passed before a new engine could be flown in from Michigan by sponsoring Electric Fuel Propulsion Inc. At Amarillo, Texas, an electronic nightmare of popping fuses and exploding diodes cost another four hours plus some added penalties for replacements...
...Amarillo, Texas...
...bill and $643,000 in debts, the wreckage of his overextended Texas construction company. Since then, Von Frellick, 51, has amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune by becoming one of the nation's more venturesome developers of shopping centers (two in Denver, one each in Dallas, San Antonio, Amarillo, Texas, and Boulder, Colo.). Last week, in the Denver suburb of Englewood, more than 5,000 workmen labored in three shifts around the clock to finish his latest and largest creation, 75-acre, $50 million Englewood-Cinderella City, in time for its scheduled March 7 opening. On the other side...