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Last week, after seemingly endless legal manuevers, the case finally reached a significant new stage. In a 3 23 -page report, former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the "special master" appointed by a New York district court to assess the amount of the damages, accepted most of TWA's claims that Hughes' procrastination in securing jets for the airline had severely crippled its ability to compete in the early 1960s. Brownell set the sum that Hughes should pay TWA at $137.6 million. His report will now go to Federal Judge Charles Metzner, who is expected to in corporate...
...starvation to fighting as an offensive weapon anyway.) At the same time, Ojukwu is equally willing to let his fellow Biafrans starve, unless he can get food on his own terms. It is a chilling standoff, and one in which it is both dangerous and difficult for outsiders to assess blame...
Loaded with Gadgets. There won't be any passengers aboard the McDonnell Douglas 188-only aviation experts and technicians to assess operating costs, time savings, and the feasibility of flying from existing airports without interfering with other traffic. Smarting under the burden of traffic jams at major airports and the skies above them, airlines and the aviation industry are scrambling for commercially viable STOL planes and the potential $5 billion market they represent...
...Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, will voice guarded optimism when he briefs the two Presidents on the war's progress. A fact-finding team headed by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle G. Wheeler flew to Viet Nam last week to assess military prospects before the meeting...
...think the best approach in addressing this topic is to assess conceptually what the Black Experience has been. Such assessment is, I think, difficult. For one thing, what contemporaneous yardstick does one use to define the historical limits--the starting point and the context of the Black Experience? How do we decide what is meaningful and valuable in the social, cultural, and political realities of the Black Experience...