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Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
...field of music the distinctions are not as clear-cut. Opera fans are probably traditionalists, secretly perhaps even monarchists. They are probably less concerned with facts and figures than devotees of the symphony or solo instruments, who often glory in the mathematical aspects of music. Opera lovers are also apt to be more intellectual and less sentimental than ballet fans, who are satisfied with generally second-rate musical scores and graceful or athletic bodily gyrations...
...which the economy confounded all the skeptics by continuing to soar-few economists or merchants would really mind if the consumer let himself go a bit. That may well happen; year after year people have been spending more on Christmas gifts, and this Christmas the excise-tax cut is apt to increase the volume of luxury buying...
Toughest Scramble. The C-5A carries a message for the U.S. aerospace industry: Government contracts from now on are apt to be fewer and bigger -and cost more just to compete for. Vastly increased costs of development, and the Pentagon's desire to avoid duplication, have already severely reduced the number of Government contracts and set the $20.7 billion aerospace industry off on the toughest competitive scramble in its history. Still, the rewards are so great that airframe companies have no choice but to compete...
...regards East Pakistan as a friendly neutral. Pakistani propaganda similarly works hard to woo the dominant Sikhs of India's Punjab, assuring them that every effort will be made to avoid damaging their sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar and urging that they sit out the war. Neither appeal is apt to be very successful...