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...Noble Savage." Nyerere has turned over the job of Westernizing the Masai to Aaron Weston Mkwang'ata, the commissioner of the territory in which most of them live. Mkwang'ata has instructed tribesmen to throw away their animal skins and skimpy loincloths and "dress in something better than a dirty sheet or a meager yard of cloth that exhibits your buttocks," has also warned them against allowing tourists to "take your naked pictures." He has backed up his crusade with penalties. In the past few weeks, about 250 Masai caught disobeying the new regulations have been locked...
...risen to more than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...roughly $40,000 per plane, the new CAS will be relatively inexpensive, and the ATA hopes to put it in operation by 1971. Budget planning for testing and refining a prototype has already begun. Says ATA president Stuart Tipton: "We believe this can be the starting point for a common national system for airborn collision avoidance -a goal we are determined to reach...
Audaciously, ATA and IATA designated last week as "World Wide Baggage Week, 1967." Included in the festivities was some hard thinking by 140 national and international member airlines, aimed at showing today's traveler that the industry cares about his grey Samsonite. One matter under study was a plan for an automated baggage delivery system developed by Teletrans Corp. of Detroit. A $100,000 prototype of the system will be tested on Aug. 15, and can be operational at airports...
Tough luck for Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata. What swingers there will miss-and those in the provinces will hear-is a propulsive, inventive brand of piano that has been the wonder of the jazz world for nearly 40 years. In Russia, as everywhere, Hines has been playing with a gusto born of assurance. His left hand minds the shop while his right frolics on a freewheeling holiday. Eyes squinched in concentration, his yard-wide smile flashing like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked...